An Exploratory Study of Air Quality Near Natural Gas Operations

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 86-105

  Colborn, Theo ^a   Schultz, Kim ^a   Herrick, Lucille ^a   Kwiatkowski, Carol ^a  

^a THE ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION EXCHANGE   (United States)

Author keywords

drilling; endocrine disruptors; hydraulic fracturing; natural gas; non methane hydrocarbons; PAHs; VOCs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886895378     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2012.749447     Document Type: Article

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