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The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health will receive a $2.5 million contract from the state of Pennsylvania to study the health effects of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
âPennsylvania is a healthy, vibrant place for all who call it home,â Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday. âWe look forward to the invaluable research that will be done by the University of Pittsburgh and the information it will provide for the commonwealth.â
In recent years, dozens of cases of Ewing sarcoma, a rare bone cancer, and other childhood and young adult cancers have been identified in Washington, Greene, Fayette and Westmoreland counties, where shale gas sites are operating.