| inbluevt | Date: Saturday, 2013/06/15, 0:33 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) today released a new report outlining the health risks to
pregnant women and young children from harmful chemicals used in fracking. The report, Toxic and Dirty Secrets: The Truth About Fracking and Your Family’s Health, shows how chemicals related to the oil and gas industry when conducting
fracking operations can pollute the air and water in communities around
fracking sites and pose health risks especially to pregnant women and
children, who are most vulnerable to chemical exposures.
“Many harmful chemicals that we have been working so hard to eliminate from consumer products are now being used in mass quantity by fracking
operations. In many instances, residents near fracking sites have already suffered from chemical pollution in their air and water,” said Ansje Miller of CEH, a co-author of the
report. “Current regulations allow companies to hide the fact that they
are poisoning us with these chemicals under a claim of ‘trade secret.’
This is unacceptable, and leads to serious health risks, especially to
pregnant women and children.”
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