Sentences with phrase «u.s. coastal plain»

Fires are also getting worse across the Eastern U.S. coastal plain, and they increased the most in the Northern Rocky Mountain region.

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It remains an open question exactly how much oil — and therefore revenue — could come from drilling in the coastal plain of ANWR, in part because it's been nearly two decades since the U.S. Geological Survey has conducted a resource assessment of the area.

Rocky Mount is a city in Edgecombe and Nash counties in the Atlantic coastal plain region of the U.S. state of North Carolina.

Now a new study by a group of geologists from the University of Vermont and the U.S. Geological Survey have confirmed that hypothesis through research using extensive drilling in the coastal plain of Maryland.

Opening access to ANWR's coastal plain has more to do with U.S. energy needs years down the road than with current market conditions.