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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 11:12 PM Nov 2013

Study: Fracking toxins linked to heart defects

Study: Fracking toxins linked to heart defects
Nov 30, 2013 http://www.texassharon.com/2013/11/30/study-fracking-toxins-linked-to-heart-defects/


Last year I blogged about a new study: the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms that exposure to “air pollutants–in some cases for a single day–increases the chance” of heart attack.

A newly released study focused on industrial pollutants found that congenital heart defects are strongly associated with mixtures of toxic air pollutants. The list of toxins are the same toxins people are being exposed to in shale oil and gas areas.

Environmental toxins linked to heart defects

DALLAS, Nov. 17, 2013 — Children’s congenital heart defects may be associated with their mothers’ exposure to specific mixtures of environmental toxins during pregnancy,


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Study: Fracking toxins linked to heart defects (Original Post) Coyotl Nov 2013 OP
I think more and more bad news will come out about Fracking. n-t Logical Nov 2013 #1
Nail polish remover, dry erase markers, many products have the same chemicals. Coyotl Nov 2013 #2
I hope someone who has some ability to make a difference defacto7 Dec 2013 #3
 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
2. Nail polish remover, dry erase markers, many products have the same chemicals.
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 11:18 PM
Nov 2013

Classrooms are unsafe, dry erase markers are sold as toys .... we have a long way to go in educating ourselves about harmful chemicals.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
3. I hope someone who has some ability to make a difference
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 03:16 AM
Dec 2013

reads this. Those of us who have been raising the warning signs for years just have to keep pushing on.

Fracking is stupid in just about every conceivable way. Betting our future on fossil fuels at all is suicide.

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