by Julia Conley
“Biologist Sandra Steingraber was among the experts on the dangers of fossil fuel extraction who pointed to the study as the latest evidence that allowing oil and gas wells to operate, especially near communities, is a public health hazard.” Steingraber is quoted in Common Dreams’ coverage of a new study documenting links between proximity to fracking and infant congenital heart defects. Read the article
by Maureen Dill
“Sandra Steingraber, co-founder of Concerned Health Professionals of New York, said in a statement, ‘the case against fracking becomes more damning’ with the publication of each edition of the Compendium.” Letter to the Editor in the Oneonta Daily Star references Steingraber’s work. Read the letter
by Sonya Lunder
“In her book Raising Elijah, biologist Sandra Steingraber questions whether it is even possible to avoid the effects of toxic chemicals. She asks if shopping guides are the modern equivalent of bomb shelters – serving as both ‘an illusion and a distraction from some larger engagement.'” This Guardian piece references Dr. Steingraber’s 2011 book. Read the article
by Erin Biba
“‘Wherever you live across the US there’s a piece of fracking infrastructure across your community. What you need to know about the health risks you’re being compelled to endure you can find in this report,’ Sandra Steingraber, a biologist at Ithaca College and co-founder of CHPNY, told Earther.” Read the article
by John Finnerty
“Rather than call for a moratorium on drilling, the governor has pitched a plan to tax drilling and use the proceeds to pay for a wide variety of infrastructure projects, said Sandra Steingraber, a biology professor at Ithaca College. She said a moratorium is in order because the ‘burden of proof should be on the industry’ to prove it’s not harming children and other members of the public, she said.” Steingraber is quoted in this Oneonta Daily Star piece about a presentation on Pennsylvania’s Geisinger Medical Center’s research on fracking. Read the article
by Mrill Ingram
“For Steingraber, who began collecting this data in 2012 as a member of a ‘frontline’ community fighting fracking in her home state of New York, the notion that the United States would crack open its bedrock and fill its drinking water with known carcinogens in order to export energy to other countries is nothing short of blasphemy.” The Progressive writes about Concerned Health Professionals of New York’s new edition of the fracking science Compendium. Read the article
by Molly Enking
“‘There are least 17 million Americans living within one mile of a fracking site, whose lives will be negatively impacted, and potentially shortened, by fracking,’ said Sandra Steingraber, co-founder of Concerned Health Professionals of NY.” Grist covers the sixth edition fracking science Compendium. Read the article
by Jake Johnson
“Sandra Steingraber, PhD, co-founder of Concerned Health Professionals of New York, said in a statement that ‘the case against fracking becomes more damning’ with the publication of each edition of the Compendium.” Common Dreams talks to Dr. Steingraber about the sixth edition of the fracking science Compendium. Read the article
by Kristina Marusic
“‘When we first started issuing this report in 2014, we predicted we’d eventually see health impacts based on what we saw happening to air and water,’ Sandra Steingraber, a professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Ithaca College and one of the lead authors of the study, told EHN. ‘Now we’re beginning to see actual evidence of human harm.'” Environmental Health News covers the new edition of the fracking science Compendium. Read the article
by Jake Johnson
“‘This is a public health crisis that requires immediate and significant action,’ reads the letter, which was signed by local and national environmental leaders, including 350.org founder Bill McKibben and Concerned Health Professionals of New York co-founder Dr. Sandra Steingraber.” Read the article