Open AccessHow Death and Disaster Followed the Shale Gas Boom in Appalachia
Author(s) -
Ritoban Mukherjee
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2020eo140793
Subject(s) - appalachia , boom , shale gas , oil shale , carbon dioxide , environmental science , geology , waste management , engineering , environmental engineering , chemistry , paleontology , organic chemistry
In the past decade, fracking has contributed to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the emission of more than a thousand tons of carbon dioxide in the Appalachian Basin.