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Title Health impact assessment of shale gas extraction : workshop summary / Christine Coussens and Rose Marie Martinez, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Publisher Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, [2014]
Copyright ©2014

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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 5  Engineering MD250 2014-C  
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Description xii, 142 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some colour) ; 23 cm
ISBN 9780309287913
030928791X
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction -- Opening session. Opening remarks ; Introducing the workshop theme ; Framing the workshop ; Health impact assessment for shale gas extraction -- Geographic footprint of shale gas extraction. Fracturing : accessing shale and tight gas ; Geographic footprint -- Occupational health and community impacts. NIOSH field effort to assess chemical exposures in oil and gas workers : health hazards in hydraulic fracturing ; Community impacts of natural gas development and human health ; Economic and community impacts of gas shale in Pennsylvania -- Air quality. Air pollution emissions from shale gas development and production ; Air quality impacts of natural gas operations in Texas ; Air pollution exposure and risk near unconventional natural gas drill sites : an example from Garfield County, Colorado ; Air quality respondent -- Water quality. Potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on water resources ; Hydraulic fracturing, water resources, and human health ; EPA study plan on the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources : approach to study potential health impacts -- Sustainable energy. Sustainable energy for all? ; Sustainable energy for all : ensuring health throughout the energy production and use life cycle -- Research opportunities : research community. Summary of presentations -- Research opportunities : federal representatives. Environmental health and hydraulic fracturing ; Perspectives on agency research activities.
Library Class Engineering MD250
Subject Shale gas industry -- Health aspects -- United States -- Congresses.
Shale gas industry -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- Congresses.
Other Author Coussens, Christine, author.
Martinez, Rose Marie, 1956- author.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, issuing body.

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