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Fracking wells released over 5 billion pounds of methane in one year
2016-04-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Being in close proximity to fracking operations could screw up your sexual health, cause developmental defects and cancer, induce seismic activity around you, and the list goes on. Does all that doom and gloom seem, well, a little vague? An Environment America report released Thursday offers raw numbers, based on a set of industry-reported data going back for more than decade. Frackers, the report concludes, have used billions of pounds of cancer-causing chemicals in at least 137,000 wells...
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