Blog

An academic with a long history of publishing questionable and heavily criticized research targeting the oil and natural gas industry, is out once again with more deeply flawed research. In the latest iteration, Dr. Lisa McKenzie, a professor at CU’s School of Public Health, attempts to connect residential proximity to …

October marked the 20th anniversary since the first Marcellus Shale well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 2004. Like Pennsylvania’s Drake Well, which launched commercial oil drilling across the world in 1859, Range Resource’s Renz #1 has been a game-changer for the Commonwealth and the United States. As Jeff Kotula, president of …

A new study attempting to blame natural gas development for negative health outcomes largely shows the opposite: that no linkage exists between fracking, adverse birth outcomes, and nearly all of the cancers studied. The study, released by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, is the result of a four-year, multi-million-dollar …

There is not sufficient evidence demonstrating causal relationships between cooking on gas stoves, indoor NO2, and asthma in children, according to a new published peer-reviewed study analyzing 66 epidemiology studies. The study – Gas Cooking and Respiratory Outcomes in Children: A Systematic Review – was funded by the American Gas …

Today, Energy in Depth is releasing a new analysis of an Oregon county health report released in November that claimed gas stoves are a “health hazard” and recommended residents replace the popular cooking appliances with electric stoves. But after a detailed citation by citation breakdown, EID’s analysis shows that the factual basis …

Another round of attention-grabbing headlines has swept the media, this time blaming fracking for childhood leukemia, yet they fail to highlight obvious limitations and past contradictions by the very same researchers. A new study by Yale University researchers, published by the Environmental Health Perspectives, claims to link children who live …

The Oil and Gas Threat Map, a newly launched interactive map from two anti-fracking activist organizations, simply rehashes flawed research in an updated format. The map, a product of Earthworks and the FracTracker Alliance, is a virtual tool with a dynamic user interface that purports to map out “threat zones” …

UPDATE (6/16/2022, 2:30 PM EST): The Colorado Department of Public Health and Envrionment (CDPHE) has issued a statement on the survey acknowleding the limitations of the authors’ findings: “Surveys of this nature contribute to the scientific evidence by identifying potential public health concerns that may need further investigation, but there …

Researchers with a long history of publishing deeply flawed studies targeting Colorado’s oil and natural gas industry – who have been previously criticized by state regulators – are out with a $55,217 survey that polled residents in Broomfield, Colo. on the health impacts of development that relies on faulty methodology. …

A new study from Harvard University that dubiously claims to link unconventional oil and natural gas development with the premature death of Medicare beneficiaries is deeply misleading and flawed in its assumptions, data and approach. In a press release touting the study, the researchers write: “The results suggest that airborne …