Pitt Institute of Politics’ Shale Gas Roundtable releases its findings, including proposing an independent shale gas research fund modeled after Boston’s Health Effects Institute, which has been advising the Roundtable. “The roundtable found that scientific research on the impacts of shale development is scant, and where it exists, it lives under a suspicion based on who funded the work: (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 8/16/13)
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