Increased traffic accident rates associated with shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania

Graham, Jove; Irving, Jennifer K; Tang, Xiaoqin; Sellers, Stephen; Crisp, Joshua; Horwitz, Daniel; Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Krupnick, Alan; Carey, David L.

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2014.11.003

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“…1-3 Truck traffic, drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and production can generate diesel particulate matter, fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), methane, NO x , and volatile organic compounds, which are also ozone precursors. 5-7,13 Some of these pollutants, most consistently PM 2.5 , NO x , SO x , and ozone, have been associated with adverse birth outcomes including low or reduced birth weight14-16 and preterm birth.14,17,18 PM 2.5 and ozone are regional air pollutants, so women living long distances from unconventional natural gas development could experience effects.…”

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Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in Pennsylvania, USA

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Background Unconventional natural gas development has expanded rapidly. In Pennsylvania the number of producing wells increased from zero in 2005 to 3689 in 2013. To our knowledge, no prior publications have focused on unconventional natural gas development and birth outcomes. Methods We performed a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record data on 9384 mothers linked to 10946 neonates in the Geisinger Health System from January 2009-January 2013. We estimated cumulative exposure to unconventional natural gas development activity with an inverse-distance squared model that incorporated distance to the mother’s home; dates and durations of well pad development, drilling, and hydraulic fracturing; and production volume during the pregnancy. We used multilevel linear and logistic regression models to examine associations between activity index quartile and term birth weight, preterm birth, low 5 minute Apgar score and small size for gestational age, while controlling for potential confounding variables. Results In adjusted models, there was an association between unconventional natural gas development activity and preterm birth that increased across quartiles, with a fourth quartile odds ratio of 1.4 (95% CI: 1.0-1.9). There were no associations of activity with Apgar score, small for gestational age, or term birth weight (after adjustment for year). In a post-hoc analysis, there was an association with physician-recorded high-risk pregnancy identified from the problem list (fourth vs. first quartile, 1.3 [95% CI: 1.1-1.7]). Conclusion Prenatal residential exposure to unconventional natural gas development activity was associated with two pregnancy outcomes, adding to evidence that unconventional natural gas development may impact health.

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Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in Pennsylvania, USA

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“…Objects of analysis include effects on employment, income or the property market but also social dynamics [20,22,26,49,53,66,81,114,115,152], local risks, risk perception and risk governance [63,64,90,131,135] or questions of energy justice [41,105]. 3 With regard to discipline, studies in these areas are biased toward sociological approaches and ethnography but also law.…”

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Conceptualizing the above ground factors in shale gas: Toward a research agenda on regulatory governance

Goldthau¹

2016

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…However, economic growth related to UOGE is relatively modest (Kinnaman 2011), and most direct jobs go to people from outside host communities (Wrenn et al 2015). Emerging evidence suggests that UOGE can strain local infrastructure (Graham et al 2015), have negative environmental impacts (Holzman 2011; Ferrar et al 2013; Paulik et al 2015), and damage public health (Colborn et al 2011; Perry 2012; McKenzie et al 2014; Rabinowitz et al 2015). Social scientists have responded to the boom by conducting a number of studies examining general cost-benefit perceptions of UOGE activity (Jacquet 2012; Schafft et al 2013; Boudet et.…”

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Free market ideology and deregulation in Colorado’s oil fields: Evidence for triple movement activism?

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Environmental Politics

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Unconventional oil and gas extraction (UOGE) has spurred an unprecedented boom in on-shore production in the U.S. Despite a surge in related research, a void exists regarding inquiries into policy outcomes and perceptions. To address this, support for federal regulatory exemptions for UOGE is examined using survey data collected in 2015 from two northern Colorado communities. Current regulatory exemptions for UOGE can be understood as components of broader societal processes of neoliberalization. Free market ideology increases public support for federal regulatory exemptions for UOGE. Perceived negative impacts do not necessarily drive people to support increased federal regulation. Utilizing neo-Polanyian theory, interaction between free market ideology and perceived negative impacts is explored. Free market ideology appears to moderate people’s views of regulation: increasing the effect of perceived negative impacts while simultaneously increasing support for deregulation. To conclude, the ways in which free market ideology might normalize the impacts of UOGE activity are discussed.

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Increased traffic accident rates associated with shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania

Cited by 79 publications

References 25 publications

Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in Pennsylvania, USA

Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in Pennsylvania, USA

Conceptualizing the above ground factors in shale gas: Toward a research agenda on regulatory governance

Free market ideology and deregulation in Colorado’s oil fields: Evidence for triple movement activism?

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