Health Problems Reportedly Emerge Near Gas Fields, Science Lags Behind

by Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica On a summer evening in June 2005, Susan Wallace-Babb went out into a neighbor's field near her ranch in Western Colorado to close an irrigation ditch. She parked down the rutted double-track, stepped out of her truck into the low-slung sun, took a deep breath, and collapsed, unconscious. A natural gas well and a pair of fuel storage tanks sat...