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Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), exposure to radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. Extant research that has reported that fracking activity increases the radon levels.
Yanqing Xu, Mounika Sajja, Ashok Kumar
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Fracturing Debate? A Review of Research on Media Coverage of “Fracking”
Frontiers in Communication, 2018 Hydraulic fracturing is an energy extraction process that is increasingly attracting controversy. This article seeks to outline how the media report hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”), and to explore its place within the reporting of energy concerns ...
Julian Matthews, Anders Hansen
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Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Reproductive hardship is highly stigmatized, which leads to such struggles being relegated to the private sphere. At the same time, numerous studies show links between toxic chemicals and reproductive hardship including miscarriage, infertility, and ...
Mollie K. Murphy +3 more
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Home rule and natural gas development in New York: civil fracking rights
Journal of Political Ecology, 2014 This paper explores the way community understanding of the impact and infrastructure associated with hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has translated into social action within the social, political, and ecological context of rural New York State, USA.
Jeanne Simonelli
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Enzyme biotechnology development for treating polymers in hydraulic fracturing operations
Microbial Biotechnology, 2021 Summary Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) is a polymer used in many different industrial sectors. In the oil and gas industry, CMC is often used during hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations as a thickening agent for effective proppant delivery ...
Gabrielle Scheffer +3 more
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Evaluation and Economics of Shale Gas Reserves in the Flysch-Eocene Formation of the Jaca Basin
Applied Sciences, 2023 The new international outlook for the gas sector suggests evaluating exploitable reserves in previously unconsidered areas including hydraulic fracturing technology.
Laura M. Valle-Falcones +3 more
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Quantification of potential macroseismic effects of the induced seismicity that might result from hydraulic fracturing for shale gas exploitation in the UK [PDF]
, 2014 The furore that has arisen in the UK over induced microseismicity from ‘fracking’ for shale gas development, which has resulted in ground vibrations strong enough to be felt, requires the urgent development of an appropriate regulatory framework.
Westaway, Robert, Younger, Paul L.
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Assessing Hydraulic Fracking Issues in the US South East and Western Region
Energy and Power, 2021 In the last several years, the choice of hydrological fracking as an alternative method of nonrenewable energy production in the US oil sector continues to gain currency across regions especially the Southeast and the West. In a country where fracking is no longer deemed as an exercise on the fringe amidst unprecedented expansion, economic boom, and ...
E. C. Merem +12 more
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Balancing Hydraulic Fracturing’s Environmental and Economic Impacts: The Need for a Comprehensive Federal Baseline and the Provision of Local Rights [PDF]
, 2013 Reliable evaluation methods is needed to ensure that investments in energy conservation measures (ECMs) and the construction of new energy efficient buildings lives up to the promised and expected performance.
Garmezy, Adam
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