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A pump jack in the town of Signal Hill, California, which sits within the Long Beach Oil Field near the Port of Long Beach. Frederick J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Living near active oil and gas wells in California tied to low birth weight and smaller babies

Rachel Morello-Frosch, University of California, Berkeley; Joan Casey, Columbia University; Kathy Tran, University of California, Berkeley, and Lara Cushing, University of California, Los Angeles

A new study finds an association between living near active oil and gas wells in California and low birth-weight infants, adding to findings elsewhere on health risks from oil and gas production.

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