The hydraulic fracturing (fracking) boom has outpaced both our understanding of its potential impacts on human health and the environment, as well as the legal and regulatory frameworks in place to govern it. We conducted interviews in Pennsylvania with individuals living in communities affected by fracking to examine how residents perceive the laws and regulations that are in place to protect them from its risks. We found that residents felt that they lacked access to sufficiently comprehensive and comprehensible information about the potential risks that fracking poses. We then drew from scholarship on the use of information disclosure as a regulatory tool to discuss the need for increased information transparency in the fracking context, and proposed several policy interventions that could ease the information asymmetry experienced by residents in these communities.

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使用压裂信息披露政策来减少基于风险的决策的不确定性

水力压裂（水力压裂）热潮已经超出了我们对其对人类健康和环境的潜在影响的理解，以及管理它的法律和监管框架。我们在宾夕法尼亚州对居住在受水力压裂影响的社区的个人进行了采访，以调查居民如何看待现有的法律和法规来保护他们免受水力压裂的风险。我们发现居民觉得他们无法获得足够全面和易于理解的信息，以了解水力压裂带来的潜在风险。然后，我们借鉴了使用信息披露作为监管工具的学术成果，讨论了在水力压裂背景下提高信息透明度的必要性，