{"id":29307,"date":"2018-03-19T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T22:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=29307"},"modified":"2018-03-19T19:32:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T00:32:41","slug":"is-fracking-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/19\/is-fracking-bad-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Fracking Bad For You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If that is a question you have, the answer may be in the fifth and current edition (2018) of Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking, by Concerned Health Professionals of NY.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You can download it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psr.org\/assets\/pdfs\/fracking-compendium-5.pdf\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report concludes that yes, Fracking is bad for you, and for others.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All together, findings to date from scientific, medical, and journalistic investigations combine to demonstrate that fracking poses significant threats to air, water, health, public safety, climate stability, seismic stability, community cohesion, and long-term economic vitality. Emerging data from a rapidly expanding body of evidence continue to reveal a plethora of recurring problemsand harms that cannot be sufficiently averted throuhj regulatory frameworks. There is no evidence that fracking can operate without threatening public health directly or without imperiling climate stability upon which public health depends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If that is a question you have, the answer may be in the fifth and current edition (2018) of Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking, by Concerned Health Professionals of NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5049,5048],"tags":[124,762,103],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fracking_greg_laden_blog.png?fit=417%2C491&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7CH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29315,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29307\/revisions\/29315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}