Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Oil and Natural Gas Operations: Potential Environmental Contamination and Recommendations to Assess Complex Environmental Mixtures | Zendy

Christopher D. Kassotis | Zendy; Donald E. Tillitt | Zendy; ChungHo Lin | Zendy; Jane A. McElroy | Zendy; Susan C. Nagel | Zendy

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Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Oil and Natural Gas Operations: Potential Environmental Contamination and Recommendations to Assess Complex Environmental Mixtures

Author(s) -

Christopher D. Kassotis,

Donald E. Tillitt,

ChungHo Lin,

Jane A. McElroy,

Susan C. Nagel

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1409535

Subject(s) - contamination , environmental science , oil and natural gas , environmental chemistry , environmental monitoring , fossil fuel , environmental health , chemistry , waste management , environmental engineering , biology , medicine , engineering , ecology

Hydraulic fracturing technologies, developed over the last 65 years, have only recently been combined with horizontal drilling to unlock oil and gas reserves previously deemed inaccessible. Although these technologies have dramatically increased domestic oil and natural gas production, they have also raised concerns for the potential contamination of local water supplies with the approximately 1,000 chemicals that are used throughout the process, including many known or suspected endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

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