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Environmental and public health advocates want the Pennsylvania Department of Health to expand the scope of a pair of studies on fracking and health effects.
The studies are looking into whether fracking has any relationship with the incidence of childhood cancer, asthma and poor birth outcomes.
The state funded the research after pressure from families in Washington County who have lost children to Ewing sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer.
So far the studies are designed to examine only activities at oil and gas well pads and compressor stations. But groups representing the families met with Department of Health officials, including interim director Alison Beam, on Monday to ask that the study be expanded to include facilities that handle fracking waste, which can contain high levels of radioactive materials.