Good news for hero:
studies have found groundwater contamination and air pollution near fracking sites, increasing the risk of cancer, birth defects, skin rashes, and upper respiratory problems.
Fracking, combined with horizontal drilling, blasts chemical-laced water mixed with sand underground to break apart shale rock and extract oil and gas. Some of the fluid may leach into groundwater.
New York has banned fracking. Other states are following suit ...a few European countries have done the same