Reminder: Nov. 16-17 PA League Of Women Voters Virtual Shale Gas & Public Health Conference; Including Efficacy Of Using Drilling Wastewater On Dirt Roads

On November 16-17, the PA League of Women Voters and the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health will hold a virtual Shale Gas & Public Health Conference from Noon to 4:00 p.m.

The Conference will feature new research presented by national experts on shale and public health impacts, and practical applications.

The agenda includes--

-- New Health Research – Nicole Deziel, PhD, MHS, Yale – Measuring exposures; Mary D. Willis PhD MPH Oregon State – Birth outcomes; Evelyn Talbott DrPH, MPH Professor, University of Pittsburgh – Methodological considerations in the conduct of childhood case-control studies;

-- Research and Regulatory Policy – Drew Michanowicz DrPH, MPH, CPH Senior Scientist PSE Healthy Energy and Harvard C-CHANGE – Setbacks; Jonathan Buonocore ScD Research Scientist Harvard C-CHANGE – Methane policy and health; Kirk Jalbert PhD Arizona State University – Pipelines, easements and landowner surveys;

-- Emerging and Urgent – Ned Ketyer MD, FAAP, President of Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania – PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and fracking; Audrey Stallworth EIT and Nathaniel Warner PhD Pennsylvania State University- Dust suppression [Read more here]; Seth Shonkoff, PhD, MPH PSE Healthy Energy/UC Berkeley – Methane and health damaging air pollutants (HDAPs);

-- Community Voices – Elyse Caron-Beaudoin PhD MSc University of Toronto Scarborough – engaging Indigenous communities; Jennifer Baka PhD Pennsylvania State University- community and the ethane cracker; Cesar Aguirre Senior Community Organizer, Central California Environmental Justice Network (CCEJN).

Click Here to register for this free Conference and for more information.

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-- Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services, FracTracker Alliance Call On Citizens To Report Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater 

-- A First-Hand Account Of How Repeated, Unlimited Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Tearing Apart Dirt Roads And Creating Multiple Environmental Hazards - By Siri Lawson, Farmington Township, Warren County

-- Trout Unlimited: What Do Pennsylvania's Dirt And Gravel Roads Have To Do With Trout?  

-- EQB Accepts Petitions For Study To Increase Oil & Gas Well Bonding; Majority Of 100,508 Conventional Wells In PA Are Not Covered By Any Bonding Requirement 

-- DRBC Extends Comment Period On Draft Regulations Covering Discharges Of Wastewater From Fracking Operations & Ban On Road Dumping Of Wastewater & Co-Products

[Posted: November 15, 2021]  PA Environment Digest