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FracTracker was originally developed to investigate health concerns and data gaps surrounding western Pennsylvania fracking. Today, as a non-profit organization, FracTracker Alliance supports groups across the United States, addressing pressing extraction-related concerns with a lens toward health effects and exposure risks on communities from oil and gas development. They provide timely and provocative data, ground-breaking analyses, maps, and other visual tools to help advocates, researchers, and the concerned public better understand the harms posed by hydrocarbon extraction.

FracTracker Alliance studies, maps, and communicates the risks of oil and gas development to protect our planet and support the renewable energy transformation. FracTracker is a leading resource on oil and gas issues and a trusted asset to the concerned public.

Published Resources

• American Academy of Pediatrics resources

• Climate Change and Children’s Health: American Academy of Pediatrics Publication

• Toward an understanding of the environmental and public health impacts of unconventional natural gas development: a categorical assessment of the peer-reviewed scientific literature

• Colorado’s Climate and Colorado’s Health: Examining the Connection

• Hydraulic fracturing and infant health: New evidence from Pennsylvania

• Association between unconventional natural gas development in the Marcellus shale and asthma exacerbations

• Human health risk assessment of air emissions from development at unconventional natural gas resources

• Gasping for Breath.

• Oil and gas industry spills increased by 17 percent around Colorado last year

• Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking (7th Edition)

• Childhood hematologic cancer and residential proximity to oil and gas development

• Birth Outcomes and Maternal Residential Proximity ot Natural Gas Development in Rural Colorado

• Congenital heart defects and intensity of oil and gas well site activities in early pregnancy

• Relationships between indicators of cardiovascular disease and intensity of oil and natural gas activity in Northeastern Colorado

• Assessing human health PM2.5 and ozone impacts from U.S. oil and natural gas sector emissions in 2025

• New look at BTEX: Are ambient levels a problem?

• Health risk assessment of natural gas drilling in Colorado

• Ambient nonmethane hydrocarbon levels along Colorado’s northern Front Range. Acute and chronic health risks

• Psychosocial impact of fracking: a review of the literature on the mental health consequences of hydraulic fracturing

• Exposures and health risks from volatile organic compounds in communities located near oil and gas exploration and production activities in Colorado

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