Environmental
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environmental health chat a podcast about how the environment affects our health. This comes from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Division of Extra Middle Research and Training. I'm your host and johnson When we started this podcast nearly two years ago, one of the first topics we tackled was the health impacts of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. It was a hot issue then and it still is today. Despite continued research and debate, many questions remain unanswered. Today's episode is an update on the latest research findings and trends. First, a quick reminder of what fracking is fracking is the method of extracting natural gas that's currently used in 21 states and the US. Hydraulic fracturing were first the actual drilling process in which water sand in a mix of chemicals is forced into horizontally drilled wells. This causes deep rock layers to crack and release. Natural gas fracking is one part of the broader process known as unconventional natural gas development. This refers to entire suit of operations associated with fracked wells all the way from construction to transport of gas.