Fracking America
Sacrificing Health and the Environment for Short-Term Economic Benefit
- 2015 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Ecology & Environment (Adult Nonfiction)
A comprehensive and well-documented look at the impacts of a controversial process to extract gas and oil from more than a mile below the earth’s surface. It is a cross-over book that meets the demanding standards of academic scholarship, while also being easily readable by the general population. Among the chapters are those that focus upon the economic, political, health, and environmental impacts of fracking.
