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Today: Jan 10, 2012
Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy
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PSE Conference News Release 1/9/12
Washington, DC. Epidemiologic and Public Health Considerations of Shale Gas Production: The Missing Link
Some Scientific Failings with the Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Statement And Proposed Regulations: Comments and Recommendations
January 8, 2012. Dr. Tony Ingraffea's SGEIS statement submitted to the NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation.
Some Scientific Failings with the Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Statement
November 30, 2011. Dr. Robert Howarth's SGEIS statement submitted to the NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation.
Should Fracking Stop? Extracting gas from shale increases the availability of this resource, but the health and environmental risks may be too high.
Point and counterpoint commentary provided by Howarth, Ingraffea, & Engelder on natural gas extraction of shale formations in Nature.
Methane and the Greenhouse-Gas Footprint of Natural Gas from Shale Formations
Shale gas has a greenhouse gas footprint that is at least 20% greater and perhaps more than twice as great as coal on a 20-year horizon.

Physician Sign-On Letter to Governor Cuomo 10/5/11 Download
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"Dear Governor Cuomo,

 

On behalf of the undersigned organizations and health professionals, we are writing with regard to the revised draft of the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) on the Oil, Gas, and Solution Mining Program issued in full in September 2011. We are greatly concerned about the omission of a critical issue related to the development of natural gas using high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”: human health impacts..."