While this study did catalogue the different chemicals found in air emissions
from gas drilling operations, it did not address exposure levels and their potential effects.
In April, the OGS said most of the state's recent earthquakes were caused by the injection of wastewater from oil and
natural gas drilling operations Earth, which has become increasingly common in recent years.
In 2011, Clean Harbors acquired Peak Energy Services, bringing on the capabilities to service oil and
gas drilling operations by providing surface rentals and specialized liquid, solid and sludge processing.
In 2011, when ProPublica first reported on the different health problems afflicting people living
near gas drilling operations, only a handful of health studies had been published.
Updates below Last year, after opponents of hydraulic fracturing made much of an unpublished paper by a doctoral candidate in economics who reported finding health impacts in infants from
nearby gas drilling operations, I wrote a piece titled «When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in the Fight Over Gas Impacts.»
Groundwater and air quality testing before, during, and after natural gas drilling — which includes hydraulic fracturing — should be key components of efforts to ensure the safety of communities near these sites, according to an expert panel convened to weigh in on public health research needs associated with unconventional
natural gas drilling operations (UNGDO).
The EPA took another step toward tightening oversight of hydraulic fracturing today, announcing it would initiate a process to set national rules for treating wastewater discharged
from gas drilling operations.
The new methane rules were a great step forward in making the air safer to breathe, especially for those who live near oil and
gas drilling operations.
Dangerous levels of radioactive water from natural
gas drilling operations is being released into streams that feed into the water supply of western Pennsylvania cities.