CATF’sreport,Fossil Fumes, and Earthworks’Oil & Gas Threat Mapfocus specifically on toxic pollutants from those facilities and their resulting health impacts.
Two leading national environmental groups-Clean Air Task Force (CATF) and Earthworks-unveiled a suite of tools Wednesday designed to inform and mobilize Americans about the health risks from toxic air pollution from the oil and gas industry. For the first time, Americans across the country-from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Weld County, Colorado to Kern County, California-can access striking new community-level data on major health risks posed by oil and gas operations across the country. The oil and gas industry is the country’s largest and fastest-growing source of methane emissions. And its facilities emit numerous other hazardous and toxic air pollutants along with methane-including