Expert to discuss health impacts of natural gas compressors

Dr. Conrad D. Volz of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Healthy Environments and Communities will talk about “Public Health Impacts of Natural Gas Compressor Stations” at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Insalaco Hall, Rooms 216-217, Misericordia University, 301 Lake St., Dallas.

Volz, an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health at the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, is focused on researching how industrial and municipal contaminants move through air, water and soil and can affect humans.

Samantha Malone, a University of Pittsburgh Center for Healthy Environments and Communities Communications specialist and the founder and webmaster of FracTracker.org, an online mapping system, will also give a presentation.

The program is the second installment of the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition’s “Educational Series for an Informed Citizenry.” It is free and open to the public. For information, visit GDACoalition.org.

Published: March 5, 2011
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