High incidences of Ewing Sarcoma cancer in children & young adults in Canonsburg PA and Ladera Ranch CA with oil & gas wells at shale layer

The oil and gas industry is a massive economic driver in both California and Pennsylvania, and the fossil fuel companies deploy (pay) highly organized lobbying operations to ensure their businesses are not curtailed by state climate and environmental health dept regulations. Ewing sarcoma cancer cover up, the states of California and Pennsylvania are littered with active and abandoned oil & gas wells, some leaking benzene and H2S gas. Oil & Gas well industry value in California over $338 billion total economic contribution. Gas from fracking in Pennsylvania over $75 billion in economic and trade benefits. Oil and gas companies spent over $17 million on lobbying in California in just the first half of 2026 to block climate and worker-safety legislation, big oil money talks. The dirty little secret about green California, a global leader on climate policies, is that Big Oil still wins a lot of its political fights.

There is a high incidences of Ewing Sarcoma cancer in children and young adults in Canonsburg PA near fracking oil & gas wells and in Ladera Ranch CA with old abandoned oil & gas wells nearby. Canonsburg PA mimics Ladera Ranch CA with 27 cases of Ewing sarcoma in a 10 year period prior to 2019 as per CBS News Pittsburgh PA. The Pennsylvania Department of Health however concluded that a series of Ewing sarcoma cases in the Canon-McMillan School District did not qualify as a statistically significant cancer cluster, WTF? You can expect the same state health dept results in Ladaera Ranch CA. Oil money talks lobbyists rule.

Currently there are approx 9 cases of Ewing sarcoma in Ladera Ranch CA up through 2026. When methane leaks from oil and gas sites, it is released with other harmful chemicals. These companion pollutants include known cancer-causing agents like benzene, formaldehyde, and acetaldehyde. We also know that shale gas facilities emit amounts of poisonous compounds that we can detect. These pollutants may enter our bodies through the air we breathe, the water we drink, or the soil we touch. And we know that spills occur and pipelines explode.

Inside The Ladera Ranch CA and Canonsburg PA Oil & Gas Wells Cover-Up of Ewing Sarcoma Cancer clusters by State Environmental Agencies lobbied by the powerful oil & gas industry in both California and Pennsylvania. State environmental and public health agencies in California and Pennsylvania maintain that available data does not establish a statistically significant cancer cluster or a direct link between oil and gas activities and Ewing sarcoma, despite intense community concern.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH; In the last decade, there have been 18 cases of Ewing sarcoma – a bone cancer most often found in children and young adults – in Washington and Westmoreland counties PA. To put that in perspective, there are roughly 200 Ewing sarcoma cases across the US each year, meaning the rate in Washington and Westmoreland counties PA has been about five times that of the rest of the US.

Canonsburg PA has widespread fracking, oil & gas wells seeking shale gas (methane CH4), deep down. Shale gas is a form of natural gas (mostly methane), found underground in shale rock. It is classified as ‘unconventional’ because it is found in shale, a less permeable rock formation than sandstone, siltstone or limestone, same goes for Ladera Ranch CA. A study published in 2016 by US Environmental Protection Agency in 2016 found that fracking can potentially lead to the contamination of drinking water. The vertical part of the well usually goes down 5,000 to 9,000 feet to reach the shale formation, just like in Ladera Ranch CA

The one common denominator in Ladera Ranch CA and Canonsburg PA is abandoned oil & gas wells nearby that went down to the "Shale Layer" where the gas is. In Ladera Ranch CA they have two abandoned deep drilled oil & gas wells, one is 8,365 feet deep drilled through the 'Shale Layer' and one is 4,350 ft deep drilled down to the "Shale Layer", gas.

Multiple young people and students in the Canon-McMillan School District (including areas like Canonsburg, Cecil, and North Strabane) were diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma—a rare bone and soft tissue cancer—over the span of a decade.

Pennsylvania is widely known for 'fracking' deep drilled wells down to the 'Shale Layer'. Fracking drills down vertically through upper rock layers and freshwater aquifers before turning sideways to run horizontally inside the target shale layer itself. Oil and gas shale layers typically lie between 3,000 and 15,000 feet below the surface.

CANONSBURG PA (KDKA) Nov 2019-- At 16, Luke Blanock was a student-athlete in the Canon-McMillan School District PA who loved to play both baseball and basketball, until one night he woke up writhing in pain. "In the next two days, we had the diagnosis from Children's Hospital that it was a rare cancer called Ewing sarcoma," said Janice Blanock, his mother. Within three years Luke would succumb to this very aggressive form of bone cancer, and he was not alone. In the past 10 years, six Canon-Mac students have contracted Ewing sarcoma and three, including Luke, have died.

"The fact that there is no known environmental factor associated with the development of Ewing Sarcoma does not mean there is no environmental factor in the development of Ewing Sarcoma," Ketyer said. "It just hasn't been studied. The cancer is very rare." In a series of reports, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette identified 27 cases of Ewing sarcoma over the same period in Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene counties, as well as other childhood cancers in the Canon-Mac School District Pennsylvania. 

With fewer than 250 cases of Ewing sarcoma recorded annually in the United States, parents and family members believe they are living in a cancer cluster and the shale gas industry is to blame. However, environmental advocates say the spike in these cancers matches the decade-long rise of fracking and shale gas drilling. Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, sits in Washington County, a major hub for Marcellus Shale natural gas exploration and production.

California's SB 1137 oil setback law; Philanthropist, green activist and big oil's worst nightmare Wendy Schmidt helped lead California's high-profile "Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California," partnering with Jane Fonda and environmental groups to defend a 2022 law enforcing a 3,200-foot health setback between oil wells and homes or schools. It strictly prohibits new oil and gas drilling or the re-drilling/rework of existing wells near sensitive community sites like homes, schools, parks, and hospitals. What about Ladera Ranch CA? 

I wonder if green activist and big oil's worst nightmare in California, Wendy Schmidt is aware of what is going on in cancer laden Ladera Ranch CA? I wonder if Wendy Schmidt is aware of the gas and oil leak from an abandoned oil well in the middle of a Newport Beach CA neighborhood had forced the city to declare a local emergency and has put the homes in the center of it all at risk of being torn down after toxic crude oil and explosive methane gas began leaking into homes in Dec 2025. Newport Beach CA to Ladera Ranch CA is only a 18 mile ride.

The oil industry, led by the California Independent Petroleum Association (CIPA), poured over $60 million into a ballot referendum aimed at repealing the law, which temporarily froze the protections. “This is a human issue, a family issue. It’s about the right of everyone in California, no matter where they live, to healthy air, uncontaminated soil and clean water,” said Wendy Schmidt, president and co-founder of the Schmidt Family Foundation. What about Ladera Ranch CA?

What played out in Canonsburg PA with multiple cases of Ewing sarcoma cancer in children and young adults widely documented living near oil & gas wells resulted in PA Health Dept to issue no cancer cluster and no link to oil & gas wells despite intense community concern. You can expect the exact same results (no link - no cancer cluster) with the Ewing sarcoma cancer cases in Ladera Ranch CA with oil & gas wells nearby. Big oil money talks in CA and PA, lobbyists rule and influence the Health departments!

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