Sentences with phrase «oil group reduced»

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A group of black parishioners in Georgia will get on their knees, wish for lower gas prices, and the being that created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies will use its telepathic powers to read their minds and will then intervene in World economics to reduce oil prices in the Southern United States.

Town of Rosendale Councilwoman Jennifer Metzger, a co-founder of the group Citizens for Local Power, says there should be no expectation that the pipeline would reduce the amount of crude oil transported by rail, and she criticized Pilgrim officials for making what she calls misleading statements.

He hopes to sell satellite data to investors in oil and gas companies, such as hedge funds, and to government agencies, environmental groups and insurance companies that might want to monitor a company's progress in reducing emissions.

Recently, a group of Italian researchers from the Universita Politecnica delle Marche published a study in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research which claims that a modest dose of one gram of fish oil per day can reduce cortisol levels and lower stress and anxiety.

Although many biological processes in alcoholics differ from those found in healthy men, the cortisol - reducing effects of fish oil apply for both groups, as proved by many consequent studies.

After just seven days of treatment, krill oil reduced inflammation by more than 19 percent, while the placebo group had an increase of inflammatory C - reactive protein of nearly 16 percent!

A recent animal study found that a combination of exercise and coconut oil reduced blood pressure in rats compared with the saline control group.

A 2009 study on obese women found that supplementing with coconut oil led to an increase in HDL Cholesterol (good cholesterol) and a reduction in LDL Cholesterol (bad cholesterol), they also lost more weight than the control groups and reduced their waist circumference [5].

Back in 2013 a study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine titled «Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet» stating through results of this study, which included over 7000 participants per group — «among persons at high cardiovascular risk, a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra virgin olive oil or nuts reduced * the incidence of major cardiovascular events.»

Furthermore, the krill oil group showed significantly reduced pain, stiffness and functional impairment compared to the placebo group in all three follow - up visits.

And after just seven days of treatment with krill oil, the treatment group reduced their mean CRP by 19.3 percent, compared to an increase of 15.7 percent observed in the placebo group.

This would serve multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us from dependence on foreign oil and simultaneously depleting terror - exporting countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.

For more, read my recent piece on «Waste Not: Common Sense Ways to Reduce Methane Pollution from the Oil and Natural Gas Industry,» a set of recommendations from a coalition of environmental groups.

They have joined Set America Free, a group that wants the government to spend $ 12 billion over four years on plug - in hybrids, alternative fuels and other measures to reduce foreign oil dependence.

Among the companies that want the United States to embrace some form of greenhouse - gas limits are oil producers including the Royal Dutch / Shell Group and BP, as well as power - generating companies like Cinergy, AEP and Entergy, all of which have moved to reduce their own emissions.

But environmental groups have mounted a major campaign to derail the project, arguing that approval of a pipeline from Canada's «tar sands» will increase global emissions of greenhouse gases, threaten local water sources and frustrate U.S. efforts to reduce its reliance on crude oil.

These companies have known for decades that their products — coal, oil, and natural gas — cause harm, yet even today they continue to fund front groups and trade associations who seek to sow confusion about climate science and block policies designed to reduce the heat - trapping emissions that cause global warming.

Now, they are coming for oil and gas development and manufacturing through the just - announced 626 - page ozone regulations, which will require states to dramatically reduce ozone emissions from the current 75 parts per billion (ppb) to a range of 65 to 70 ppb — though environmental groups want a 60 ppb standard, which may be the final rule.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

This year, Shell Oil reneged on a commitment to reduce carbon emissions from a $ 13.7 billion expansion to conventional levels, even though this exposes them to litigation from environmental groups that threatens their project permitting.

In the letter, the groups applaud Obama's commitment last June to reducing carbon pollution and leading the world in the fight against climate change, but remind him that an «all of the above» energy strategy — one that embraces the domestic production of natural gas, oil and coal — runs counter to those goals.

Most mainstream U.S. environmental groups, trying to build support for climate legislation, have backed off the scare tactics and focused instead on side benefits such as green jobs and reduced dependence on foreign oil.