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Environmental Defense Fund Blog: Another Study Identifies Health Risks During Unconventional Oil & Gas Production Even For Those Living Within 1,000 Feet Or More Of Wells

PA Environment Daily

We collaborated with researchers from Colorado State University, Ajax Analytics, and the Colorado School of Public Health to study the cumulative risks posed by volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and ozone to communities living along Colorados Front Range.

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Volatile Chemical Products: Important Contributors to Harmful Particulate Matter

HumanNature

Guest Post by Tucker Melles , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation. However, we have negatively impacted our atmosphere in several different ways.

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Nearly Half of US Breathes Unhealthy Levels of Pollution—Cars and Trucks Largely to Blame

Union of Concerned Scientists

Over 156 million people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollutants, according to the recently published 2025 State-of-the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). It presents air pollution data at the county-level for two pollutants, deadly fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and ground-level ozone.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

In October 2020, the group presented a comprehensive outline of economically viable best practices for the oil and gas sector (the largest source of black carbon in the Arctic) that could help reduce the emission of short-lived climate pollutants, including black carbon, by up to 70% by 2025 (Arctic Council 2020). Arctic Council.