GEOL 1339 - ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: MINING AND GAS DRILLING ISSUES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This term’s focus is on mining issues. Mining and oil and gas extraction has a long, important and sometimes dark history in Pennsylvania. Almost since the first black chunk was pried from the first mine, coal has been king in the keystone state. It has fueled industries, heated homes, and powered trains and river tugs. It has been politically powerful. It has also colored streams, creeks and rivers orange and left them dead. It has scarred the rolling Allegheny hills, first with strip mines and now with “valley fills.” how is mining’s environmental legacy being addressed? How effective are current laws in regulating the industry? What’s the latest, best, mining technique, and what is its public impact? What has been industry’s response? What impacts,”
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: Environmental Geology (BS, BPH) or Environmental Studies (BA, BPH) or Geology (BS, BPH) or Environmental Science (BS)

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