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Screening Health Risk Assessment Sublette County, Wyoming
The development of the natural gas extraction industry in Sublette County (see Figure 1-1) and monitoring observations of ambient ozone concentrations higher than 80 parts per billion measured by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WyDEQ)5 during the winters of 2005 and 2006 have triggered public interest in whether air pollutant emissions from gas extraction activities pose any significant risk of adverse health effects. In response to this interest, the Sublette County Commissioners (SCC), Wyoming Department of Health (DOH) and the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) contracted for an ambient monitoring study of ozone and toxic air contaminants (TACs) in the general vicinity of the natural gas extraction fields.
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Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy
