The Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project says the “shale industry continues to impact” Washington County, yet health there is much improving.

It’s that time of year when every non-profit in the land begs for money in the hopes those who’ve done well might want an extra tax deduction for something they already support. My e-mail box is full of such solicitations, including several from groups I don’t support at all who somehow got my name; groups such as the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Project or EHP.

The EHP is nothing more than a fractivist junk science tool financed by the Heinz Endowments as far as I’m concerned, but Raina Rippel, the EHP’s Director just wrote me to say “EHP is 100% committed to being there” for me. She says her “team of researchers and public health professionals have lived and breathed the air of the communities we struggle to protect.” She asked to join her, and stay with her, in her battle—by donating, of course. Needless to say she won’t be getting money from me and for good reason, because the health of the community where she’s located, in Washington County, the middle of a shale region, is improving.

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http://naturalgasnow.org/shale-bad-washington-county-health-improving/