Schwartz in Nature Journal on fracking health study
May 29, 2012
Post Carbon Fellow Brian Schwartz’s involvement in plans for a study around the health effects of fracking in the US was reported in Nature Journal.
From the article:
Brian Schwartz, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, wants to mine them for multiple health indicators, including trends in asthma cases, which can serve as a bellwether for air quality. His team will overlay these data with computer models for environmental air quality based on EPA monitoring data, which will provide a picture of whether air quality around wells has changed as fracking in the region has intensified and how, where and when pollutants could be affecting asthma patients.