NPR | "Low birth weight rates rose nearly 50% around Aliso Canyon gas leak, UCLA study finds"

KPCC-FM (NPR) interviewed Dr. Michael Jerrett, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Environmental Health Sciences, about research he has led that found that women who were pregnant at the time of the 2015-16 leak had babies with low birth weights at rates almost 50% higher than normal.

“There are risks to having these large natural gas storage facilities close to major urban populations,” said Michael Jerrett, principal investigator of the UCLA Aliso Canyon Research Disaster Health Research Study  team. “It can translate into substantial health effects that could have lifelong effects.”

Read the KPCC-FM/LAist article here.