Sentences with phrase «unconventional natural gas development»

Indeed, only recently have rigorous health studies on the impact of unconventional natural gas development on health been completed.

The first states to begin unconventional natural gas development with fracking have cited potential economic, energy and community benefits.

In the asthma study, we found increased odds among asthma patients of asthma hospitalizations, emergency department visits and a medication used for mild asthma attacks with higher unconventional natural gas development activity, compared to those with lower activity.

Finally, in our study of symptoms, we found patients with higher unconventional natural gas development activity had higher odds of nasal and sinus, migraine headache and fatigue symptoms compared to those with lower activity.

Psychosocial stress, exposure to air pollution including truck traffic, sleep disruption and changes to socioeconomic status are all biologically plausible pathways for unconventional natural gas development to affect health.

However, such statements ignore studies that suggest fracking has worsened local air quality in areas undergoing unconventional natural gas development.

In all studies, we assigned patients measures of unconventional natural gas development activity.

These, together with other studies, form a growing body of evidence that unconventional natural gas development is having detrimental effects on health.

Often the industry states that unconventional natural gas development has improved air quality.

In the birth outcome study, we found increased odds of preterm birth and suggestive evidence for reduced birth weight among women with higher unconventional natural gas development activity (those closer to more and bigger unconventional wells), compared with women with lower unconventional natural gas development activity during pregnancy.

Hill's work has focused on birth weight and other measures of the condition of babies born to women living close to gas wells in rural Pennsylvania and is summarized so far in a «working paper» titled «Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Infant Health: Evidence from Pennsylvania.»

Finally, while the paper does invite further research, it is meant to provide defensible findings on the impacts of unconventional natural gas development.

That said, I think that my findings suggest that further study is needed to determine if living in close proximity to unconventional natural gas development is a threat to human health.

She studies the politics of science and expertise in the governance of unconventional natural gas development and climate engineering, and am particularly interested in understanding the co-production of regulatory science and new forms of environmental governance in uncertain and controversial contexts.