The Pennsylvania gas law fails to protect public health!

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Our legislators punted when it was time to protect us, say Pitt experts BERNARD GOLDSTEIN and JILL KRIESKY

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Gov. Tom Corbett recently signed a bill that goes beyond just ignoring concerns about the potential human health effects of Marcellus Shale drilling, it retains some of the worst aspects of industry secrecy about proprietary hydrofracking chemicals while making unethical demands on physicians.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12071/1215612-109.stm?cmpid=MOSTEMAILEDBOX#ixzz1orzPDcCt

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1. A bit more info from the article:

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Under the newly enacted law, copied almost verbatim from a controversial Colorado law, a physician may receive information about a proprietary chemical used in the fracking process, but the physician must agree to not reveal this information to the public. The law also allows the company to keep secret from physicians information about agents that come up from the ground during drilling, such as natural gas constituents -- which themselves can be toxic -- and naturally occurring toxic agents such as arsenic, barium, brine components and radioactive compounds dissolved in flowback water. Nor can public health authorities begin with knowledge of a secret chemical and ask whether there is an increase in an illness that the chemical is known to cause.

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Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12071/1215612-109.stm?cmpid=MOSTEMAILEDBOX#ixzz1ou0a3eaj

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2. The more I think about this, the angrier I get.

This is worse than "the public be damned." This is "we are screwing the public and the law is the tool we are using."

As a citizen of Pennsylvania, I'm seeing red right now.