[Translate] By Jim Meyer GRIST Shutterstock In a recent congressional hearing
about oil and gas operations in national wildlife...
Not exact matches
The stock has soared more than eight per cent over the past week on speculation the company could buy the retail
operations of
oil and gas giant Hess, which owns
about 1,350 gasoline stations in 16 East Coast states.
Highlights for me include mentions of the new experiments Michael Faraday was conducting with zinc wires, speculation
about the coming of the «electro - magnetic light as a substitute for
oil or
gas,»
and the beginning of the information age: Samuel Morse's telegraph was then in
operation only between Washington
and Baltimore, but the editors predicted «this wonder of the age» would come into «general use through the length
and breadth of our land.»
The most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for greenhouse
gas emissions from the
oil and natural
gas sector, released last week, show that as the number of such facilities have increased in the U.S. between 2011
and 2014, total greenhouse
gas emissions from
oil and gas operations have risen by
about 6.2 percent.
There is also uncertainty
about the impact of
oil and gas operations on the marine ecosystems that unique to the Arctic,
and how both might be affected by climate change related impacts.
Landfills were the major source of CH4
and accounted for
about 38 % of total emissions of
about 3.7 Mt.. Other major sources of CH4 were:
oil and gas operations 29 %, livestock 27 %, coal mining 4 %,
and miscellaneous 1 %.
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