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OIL ODORS: IF YOU SMELL IT, IS IT TOXIC?

Posted by Info@ NEOGAP on Monday, June 7, 2010, In : Health & Safety Impacts 

Oil Odors: If You Smell It, Is It Toxic?

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/gsolomon/oil_odors_if_you_smell_it_is_i.html

Posted June 7, 2010 in Health and the Environment

Everywhere you go these days on the Gulf Coast, people are complaining about the smell of oil. Fishermen and other clean-up workers are noticing strong smells, and coastal residents from Venice, LA, to Pensacola, FL are complaining that when the wind is fairly still or when it blows from the South, they're suffering from t...


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Video on Chemicals Used in Natural Gas

Posted by Info@ NEOGAP on Tuesday, December 22, 2009, In : Health & Safety Impacts 
As natural gas production rapidly increases across the U.S., its associated pollution has reached the stage where it is contaminating essential life support systems - water, air, and soil - and causing harm to the health of humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and vegetation.  This project was designed to explore the health effects of products and chemicals used in drilling, fracturing (frac’ing, or stimulation), recovery and delivery of natural gas. It provides a glimpse at the pattern(s) o...
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Environmental Groups and EPA Reach Agreement on Updating Nationwide Limits on Air Pollution from Oil and Gas Drilling

Posted by Info@ NEOGAP on Thursday, December 10, 2009, In : Health & Safety Impacts 

Date: 12/8/2009  Press Release
Author: WildEarth Guardians
Contact: Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians, (303) 573-4898 x537
Email: jnichols@wildearthguardians.org
Additional Contact: n/a

Clean Air, Climate, Communities on Track for Greater Protection Throughout U.S. 

DENVER—WildEarth Guardians and the San Juan Citizens Alliance today announced a legal settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that promises to lead to a major overhaul of federal regulations limiting air poll...


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Natural Gas Leaks From Pipelines Near Gas Wells

Posted by Info@ NEOGAP on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, In : Health & Safety Impacts 

 
Neighbors Comment: This line gets checked 5 days a week, they do know it is spewing gas.  It is right beside the East Ohio Dominion compressor station.  This is also with in 5feet of the road.  It's a bomb that just needs a cigarette flung on-top of it.

This is one of the check points for the gas pipelines that come from the natural gas well heads to the compressor stations., so everyone who allows a natural gas well near their home, will also be welcoming this, and this is after they fixed...


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