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The Potential Impacts of Shale Gas and Oil Development on Children as a Vulnerable Population

  • date February 1, 2015
  • Program Environmental Health Program
  • author PSE Staff
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  • Many of the chemicals used and produced by shale gas and oil extraction processes are toxins with well-known health effects. Children and pregnant women exposed to these toxins and other associated social and biological stressors are especially vulnerable.

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