Toward an understanding of the environmental and public health impacts of unconventional natural gas development: A categorical assessment of the peer-reviewed scientific literature, 2009-2015

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Hays, Jake ^a,b   Shonkoff, Seth B C ^a,c,d  

^a and Engineers for Healthy Energy   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL GAS;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PEER REVIEW; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; OIL AND GAS FIELD; WATER POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; NATURAL GAS; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; PUBLIC HEALTH; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84979009968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154164     Document Type: Review

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