Determined residents taking control of the search for truth: [“You can certainly say they are activist-type people,” said the lead researcher, David O. Carpenter of the University at Albany in New York. “They were willing to do this work for no salary.” Roter would disagree with the term “activist.” “You can’t choose not to breathe,” she said. “Whether you’re pro-gas or anti-gas — it’s a unifier. One of our goals was to make it acceptable to voice concerns about air quality in the Marcellus because of emissions. And that’s happened … That was not so a year and a half or two years ago.” In this case, the citizen science approach made a study happen that wouldn’t have otherwise occurred. [
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