Earlier this month, a Bloomberg News headline made a very serious accusation about hydraulic fracturing and shale development: “Study Shows Fracking Is Bad For Babies” was the title of an opinion column by Mark Whitehouse. The opening paragraph followed with a strong indictment of the...
From the draft report on water quality in Pavillion, Wyo., to a Cornell graduate student's paper on public health, opponents of oil and gas development are displaying a troubling habit of leaping to conclusions before even basic scientific review can be completed. But if your job is to generate headlines, why let science get in the way?
This week, Energy in Depth – Ohio attended the “Public Informational Forum on Statewide Fossil Fuel Fracking” in Erie, Ohio. What was disguised as an educational, “informational” forum was, unfortunately more of the same misleading rhetoric we’ve come to expect from the organization providing the speaker in NEOGAP.
Ohio has a long history of oil and gas development but it hasn't been until recently that this development has drawn the attention of activists and "researchers" from outside of the Buckeye State. Today, Dr. Lisa Mckenzie from the Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH) adds her name to a growing list of out of town visitors as she visits the Ohio State University.
Sue Mickley Environmental Protection Committee Chair – Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance; MPH/HA – Yale University Uni Blake Environmental Consultant – Toxicologist Master’s Degree in Environmental Toxicology – American University Last week the Institute of Medicine held a roundtable discussion to examine the “public health...