According to the first large - scale study of babies born before and
after natural gas extraction began in Pennsylvania, those living near fracking sites had significantly lower birth weights — and worse health — than other babies.
Not exact matches
Not later than 270 days
after the date of enactment of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Commission shall issue final rules that require each resource
extraction issuer to include in an annual report of the resource
extraction issuer information relating to any payment made by the resource
extraction issuer, a subsidiary of the resource
extraction issuer, or an entity under the control of the resource
extraction issuer to a foreign government or the Federal Government for the purpose of the commercial development of oil,
natural gas, or minerals...
Schneiderman had sued the commission, an agency that regulates drinking water for residents in parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, earlier this year
after he determined their proposed regulations for the controversial
natural gas extraction method didn't go far enough.
The letter comes
after the Cuomo administration this month moved to ban hydrofracking, a controversial
natural gas extraction process that would have been used in the Southern Tier and potentially helped create jobs.
«Oil and
gas wastewater disposal may harm West Virginia waterways: Scientists draw conclusions
after study at
natural gas, oil
extraction wastewater disposal facility.»
Might add,
after reading about the burg from your link, that
natural gas production, in the area, once in operation will offer abundant, further employment to the locals along with their current employment opportunities in the local oil -
extraction industry.
After New York governor Andrew Cuomo partially lifted the moratorium on fracking, opponents of the
natural gas extraction procedure were predictably and probably justifiably not happy.