Environmental health research recommendations from the inter-environmental health sciences core center working group on unconventional natural gas drilling operations

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1155-1159

  Penning, Trevor M ^a   Patrick, N ^b   Gray, Kathleen ^c   Howarth, Marilyn ^a   Yan, Beizhan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BARIUM; BENZENE; BROMIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORIDE; DIESEL FUEL; ETHANE; GASOLINE; GROUND WATER; HEAVY METAL; MERCURY; METHANE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PROPANE; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; SEA WATER; SILICON DIOXIDE; STRONTIUM; SULFUR OXIDE; TRACE METAL; XYLENE; NATURAL GAS; WATER POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES CORE CENTER; FUEL AND FUEL RELATED PHENOMENA; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; UNCONVENTIONAL NATURAL GAS DRILLING OPERATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; MINING; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; NATURAL GAS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84915754169     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408207     Document Type: Article

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