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Does living near an oil or natural gas well affect your drinking water?

February 15, 2016

“The answer to that question is usually ‘no,’ but there are exceptions,” said Stanford Professor Rob Jackson, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford University, and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy.

An expert on the health impacts of fossil fuels, Jackson has studied groundwater quality at oil and gas fields throughout the United States.

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