Air Quality Concerns Threaten Clean Gas Image

Air Quality Concerns Threaten Natural Gas's Image

by Elizabeth Shogren, National Public Radio | June 21, 2011

Gas production already has caused unhealthy air in Wyoming's Sublette County, and experts caution that much cleaner production practices are needed to prevent the industry from becoming an air quality villain.

After a natural gas compressor station went in three years ago just 700 feet from their house in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, Pam Judy, her husband and two grown kids started getting headaches, and then fatigue set in. They've also had dizziness, nausea and nosebleeds: just like some respondents of the "Healthy Air Questionnaire" distributed in Sublette County, Wyoming this past Feb.

To hear the full story: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/21/137197991/air-quality-concerns-threaten-natural-gas-image