The National Academies Institute of Health held a two-day workshop on the potential health impacts of shale gas extraction and emerging energy technologies and ways to identify and mitigate potential health impacts.
This workshop is sponsored by the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine with the intent that Roundtable members, scientists, decision makers, and other participants will become better informed on the potential health impacts of hydrofracking, be updated on the learn lessons from ongoing health impacts assessments, and be better positioned to consider safeguards to protect the public's health from emerging energy and other technologies.The purpose is to foster dialogue and is not intended to provide recommendations.
Watch a recorded webcast of workshop talks to learn more about this subject.