Yilan Xu, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at Illinois (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Yilan Xu, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at Illinois

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A new paper co-written by Yilan Xu, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at Illinois, shows that the growing traffic burden in shale energy boomtowns from trucks hauling wastewater to disposal sites resulted in a surge of road fatalities and severe accidents.

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