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Posted Mon Jun 29 2015: from Rolling Stone:
What's Killing the Babies of Vernal, Utah? http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1435592754
...an alarming number of babies were dying in Vernal -- at least 10 in 2013 alone, what seemed to her a shockingly high infant mortality rate for such a small town... in Vernal, a town literally built by oil, raising questions about the safety of fracking will brand you a traitor and a target... Suspect One: the extraordinary levels of wintertime pollution plaguing the Basin since the vast new undertaking to frack the region's shale filled the air with toxins.
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