By Aimen Zehra, age 12 and IndyKids staff
Fracking is a method used to extract fossil fuels from hard-to-reach places underground. However, researchers at Yale School of Public Health have now found that children living within a mile of a fracking well are twice as likely to develop leukemia than other children.
By Raya El-Hajjar, age 13 “It’ll start getting cooler…you just watch,” President Trump said as he sat in a news briefing in Sacramento, California. It was September 2020, at the height of the California wildfires. A picture of burning trees was displayed on his left. This is one of the most recent examples of the …
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On December 17, 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo banned fracking in New York State because of health problems and protests from activist groups.
Scientists believe that an increase in earthquakes in certain regions of the country is linked to fracking.
Two Pennsylvania children, ages seven and ten, and their parents were issued a gag order banning them from ever speaking about fracking or shale oil drilling again.
In early January, thousands of protesters in Albany, New York pressured Governor Cuomo to ban hydraulic fracturing—a.k.a., “fracking”—in New York State.
