Gas Drilling and Health on Conference Agenda

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
23 October 2011

The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health will host its second annual conference on the health effects of Marcellus shale gas extraction.

The conference will be from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 18 at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland. The conference includes a panel of five experts from Pitt, Carnegie Mellon University and Duke University.

The conference will explore the science and methodology of environmental health effects of natural gas extraction from shale deposits.

For more information, visit http://www.shalegas.pitt.edu