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Slideshow: Sick From Fracking? Doctors, Patients Seek Answers

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'Close Encounters' With Gas Well Pollution

Living in the middle of a natural gas boom can be pretty unsettling. The area around the town of Silt, Colo., used to be the kind of sleepy rural place where the tweet of birds was the most you would...

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Slideshow: 'Close Encounters' With Gas Well Pollution

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Medical Records Could Yield Answers On Fracking

A proposed study of people in northern Pennsylvania could help resolve a national debate about whether the natural gas boom is making people sick. The study would look at detailed health histories on...

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Town's Effort To Link Fracking And Illness Falls Short

Quite a few of the 225 people who live in Dish, Texas, think the nation's natural gas boom is making them sick. They blame the chemicals used in gas production for health problems ranging from...

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Slideshow: Town's Effort To Link Fracking And Illness Falls Short

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Interactive Map: Conventional Natural Gas Drilling Areas And Shale Basins

For many years, natural gas companies have been producing the fuel from "conventional" gas reservoirs, relatively close to the surface and easily accessible. New shale gas production techniques have...

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Fracking's Methane Trail: A Detective Story

Gaby Petron didn't set out to challenge industry and government assumptions about how much pollution comes from natural gas drilling. She was just doing what she always does as an air pollution data...

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Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Fracking 'Gag Rule'

From WHYY A new law in Pennsylvania has doctors nervous. The law grants physicians access to information about trade-secret chemicals used in natural gas drilling. Doctors say they need to know what's...

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Rising Shale Water Complicates Fracking Debate

The nation's boom in natural gas production has come with a cost: The technique used to get much of the gas out of the ground, called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has contaminated drinking water....

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