Fracking Attracting New Scrutiny
November 25, 2019
Pennsylvania residents in areas where the drilling process called fracking is widely used to extract natural gas from buried shale deposits have expressed concern that it might have caused dozens of cases of childhood cancers, and the state is launching new studies to better assess fracking’s potential health risks. Timely and needed. In Issues, a group of analysts earlier argued that there is “remarkably little independent information available to the public” on possible health effects of fracking, going on to outline steps that states should take to fill the gap.