PA Spending $3.9M on Flawed Studies to Link Fracking with Cancer

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a liberal Democrat who sometimes supports the shale gas industry (as long as he can tax it) has caved to demands from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to launch a "study" in a bid to "prove" cases of childhood cancer in southwestern PA can be tied to shale drilling in the region. A pair of studies, actually. The studies won't be completed for three years, after Wolf is out of office, so he gets credit for caring, but he won't be around for the fallout when it happens.

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