Researchers said that over a dozen infant deaths in one Utah basin over the last year may be related to a recent increase in oil drilling.
In a Sunday report, the Denver Post talked to scientists about the possibilities that the dead babies were “victims of air pollution fed by the nearly 12,000 oil and gas wells in one of the most energy-rich areas in the country.”
“I suspect it is real — that there is a relationship,” University of Missouri School of Medicine researcher Susan Nagel, Ph.D, told the Post.
“Scads of medical studies have concluded that air pollution can harm embryos. Drilling is a documented contributor to that pollution. It is a given that some of the harmful chemicals released in drilling, like benzene, toluene and xylenes, can cross the placental barrier and cause heart, brain and spinal defects,” the paper points out.
I think Baby Boopers pictured above is not too keen on this fossil fuel, killing babies thing.
All the more reason to leave oil where it is and re-purpose the oil industry to renewable’s.
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Luck with that.
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Russia reverting to 19th century.
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Drippy out. Too much for stick walking, at least today.
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Honors student Miss Alice started oboe in 5th grade.
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When the party is over…
http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/10/28/when-shale-runs-dry-look-future-drilling-fracking
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…they might learn. Fossil fuel is a dead-end road.
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There’s gonna be a game 7.
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What a slap in the Giant face that was.
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Percussion concert. Final piece included 4 pianos.
Wowzer.
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