Fracking's Air Pollution Puts Infants and Children at Risk of Developing Heart, Lung Probs: New Study

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5. It seems to have a gap between claims and research.

Silica dust is bad. So is benzene.

Fracking uses and emits (some) silica dust.

Therefore, exposure of humans, esp. young children, to fracking must be bad.

1. What's the actual exposure for those exposed to fracking?

2. What number of children are affected?

3. Can steps be taken to mitigate that exposure?

Esp. since most fracking is not in populated areas, and those in those areas tend to be adults.

It always creates a bit of angst for me when a politician, even one like Sanders who, I have to assume, has multiple PhDs in engineering, chemistry, and public health, is cited as an authority, simply because I have to assume he's been too busy recently to have contributed to the literature specific to this problem.

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "terra forming."