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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112298
	The effect of Pennsylvania's 500 ft surface setback regulation on siting unconventional natural gas wells near buildings: An interrupted time-series analysis
	Michanowicz D.R.; Buonocore J.J.; Konschnik K.E.; Goho S.A.; Bernstein A.S.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0301-4215
卷号	154
英文摘要	In 2012 Pennsylvania's legislature increased the unconventional natural gas (UNG) well-to-building setback requirement from 200 ft to 500 ft through Act 13. To evaluate this policy, we identified all setback incident locations where a UNG well was within 500 ft of a building both before and after the implementation of Act 13. Using an interrupted time series design, we found that Act 13 did not significantly alter how wells were sited in relation to nearby buildings. Of the 1042 wells that contained a building within 500 ft – equating to ~10.1% of UNG wells (n = 11,148) and ~14.7% well pads (n = 479) – a total of 371 well setback incidents occurred after Act 13, likely due from the existing well pad exemption (35%) and a combination of landowner consent and regulatory variances rather than encroaching building construction. Overall, our study suggests that exemptions are an important and underappreciated aspect of oil and gas well setback rulemaking and highlights the relevance of other health-protective regulatory tools often promulgated alongside setbacks. New or amended setback regulations should revisit exemption procedures and where warranted, impose additional mitigation measures to ensure setback regulations provide adequate protections for health and safety as intended. © 2021
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Laws and legislation; Natural gas; Natural gas wells; Time series analysis; Building construction; Gas well; Health and safety; Interrupted time; Mitigation measures; Oil and gas well; Pennsylvania; Time-series analysis; Times series; Unconventional natural gas; Buildings; building; energy policy; gas well; natural gas; oil well; regulatory framework; time series analysis; Pennsylvania; United States
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/256592
作者单位	Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, United States; PSE Healthy Energy, Oakland, CA, United States; Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, United States; Nicholas Institute for Environmental Solutions, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States; Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Michanowicz D.R.,Buonocore J.J.,Konschnik K.E.,et al. The effect of Pennsylvania's 500 ft surface setback regulation on siting unconventional natural gas wells near buildings: An interrupted time-series analysis[J],2021,154.
APA	Michanowicz D.R.,Buonocore J.J.,Konschnik K.E.,Goho S.A.,&Bernstein A.S..(2021).The effect of Pennsylvania's 500 ft surface setback regulation on siting unconventional natural gas wells near buildings: An interrupted time-series analysis.Energy Policy,154.
MLA	Michanowicz D.R.,et al."The effect of Pennsylvania's 500 ft surface setback regulation on siting unconventional natural gas wells near buildings: An interrupted time-series analysis".Energy Policy 154(2021).