Radioactive radon is present in all natural gas extracted from shale, and the U.S. surgeon general and the World Health Organization cite it as the second-leading cause of lung cancer. Natural gas from the Marcellus Shale will raise the radioactive levels in cooking and heating gas used in cities throughout New York by some 70%.
Why is this important?
I live in NYS and poisoning any place means poisoning every place! The NYS Dept of Health is about to issue a review of fracking and health, and this petition is intended to make the governor and the DOH include this unholy trinity (“Fracking, Radon and Lung Cancer”) in its review.
