They also compared siblings born to the same mothers who lived near
fracking sites before and after it started.
Not exact matches
It's looking less and less likely that state Senators and Assemblymembers will get a pay raise as a holiday present this year, but Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers still have a number of issues they need to resolve
before the year ends, ranging from the
siting of gambling casinos to how to close a Thruway deficit and whether to go ahead with hydro -
fracking.
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.
There was no change in the percentage of low - weight births to moms three to 15 kilometers from a
site before and after
fracking.
Using records from more than 1.1 million births across Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2013, the researchers compared infants born to mothers living near a drilling
site to those living farther away from a
site,
before and after
fracking began at that
site.