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Between 2007 and 2010 the Sierra Club accepted over $25 million in donations from the gas industry but declined recent offers of $30 million.
Tags: ads-by-google, archaeology, coal, current-events, earth sciences, environment, Jobs, mexico, shaleOut of nearly 6000 homes damaged by the August 23 earthquake in Virginia , only a few percent will be covered by earthquake insurance. A bill in the Virginia legislature, if passed, will require insurance companies to notify all homeowners who have purchased a homeowners insurance policy that does not cover earthquakes.
Tags: archaeology, current-events, earthquake, energy, environment, geology-news, Geology.com, japan, Jobs, massachusetts, natural hazards, north-carolina, philippines, politics and geology, shaleSome people don’t like the word “fracking” and want the term hydraulic fracturing to always be used in its place.
Tags: ads-by-google, carolina, climate-change, current-events, earthquakes, energy, environment, geology-news, geophysics, hydraulic-fracturing, mexico, news, oil and gas, south-carolinaHigh latitude areas around the Earth are seeing spectacular aurora displays in response to an intense solar storm that occurred last week. These displays are expected to be very frequent over the next two years as the sun goes through a period of frequent activity
Tags: current-events, earth, earth sciences, energy, environment, geology, Geology.com, marcellus-shale, meteorites, mexico, news, north-carolina, shaleAn article in the Los Angeles Times reports that the California Department of Transportation would like to abandon State Highway 39 because landslide and other problems are costing $1.5 million per year to repair.
Tags: california, environment, geology-news, landslides, meteorites, oregon, pennsylvania, shale, south-carolinaAn asteroid measuring somewhere between 20 and 60 feet in diameter came within 37,000 miles of hitting the Earth – that’s about 1/6 of the distance between Earth and Moon .
Tags: ads-by-google, asteroids and meteorites, earth, earthquakes, energy, environment, geology-news, Geology.com, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, mexico, moon, pennsylvania, south-carolina, virginia“Since the establishment of the Acid Rain Program, of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, there have been substantial reductions in sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emissions from power plants that use fossil fuels, which are known to be the primary causes of acid rain. As of 2009, emissions of SO2 and NOx declined by about two-thirds relative to levels in the 1990s.” Quoted from the USGS press release.
Tags: contamination, current-events, earth sciences, emissions, environment, geology-news, Jobs, meteorites, mexico, news, usgs, virginia“Using data from NASA ’s Kepler Mission, astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting “circumbinary” planet systems–planets that orbit two stars.” Quoted from the San Diego State University press release.
Tags: astronomy, environment, geology, geology-news, Jobs, news, north-carolina, pennsylvania, planets, washington“The bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at least two types of bacteria happily live there.” Quoted from the Penn State press release.
Tags: carolina, climate-change, current-events, earth sciences, environment, geology-news, pennsylvania, south-carolinaEven though oil production from North Dakota ’s Bakken Formation has propelled the state to new production records there is still a backlog of wells to be fracked.
Tags: archaeology, bakken shale, climate-change, current-events, environment, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, news, north, north-carolina, north-dakota, pennsylvania, philippines, united-states