Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

Executive summary Despite the initial hope inspired by the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world
is now dangerously close to breaching its target of limiting global multiyear mean heating to …

Combined environmental exposures to the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) Benzene,
Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene (BTEX) pose clear risks to public health. Research into …

Since the beginning of this millennium, shale gas extraction by horizontal drilling and
hydraulic fracturing has boosted US gas production, changing the global energy markets …

Extraction of natural gas from shale rock in the United States (US) is one of the landmark
events in the 21st century. The combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing can …

The pursuit of future energy systems that can meet electricity demands while supporting the
attainment of societal environment goals, including mitigating climate change and reducing …

Using data from Pennsylvania and an array of empirical techniques to control for
confounding factors, we recover hedonic estimates of property value impacts from nearby …

The rapid increase in unconventional natural gas (UNG) development in the United States
during the past decade has brought wells and related infrastructure closer to population …

Engineering estimates of methane emissions from natural gas production have led to varied
projections of national emissions. This work reports direct measurements of methane …

Unconventional oil and natural gas extraction enabled by horizontal drilling and hydraulic
fracturing (fracking) is driving an economic boom, with consequences described from …