Sentences with phrase «about oil pollution»

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, I was in southeast Texas, taking pictures of an oil refinery for a report about air pollution and the harm it causes to lower - income communities like Port Arthur, Texas.

A further study in October of last year found an average ratio of female to male births of 54:46 in about 90 Canadian communities, a shift that James Argo of the IntrAmericas Centre for Environment and Health in Ontario attributes to dioxin pollution from nearby oil refineries, metal smelters, coke ovens, and pulp mills.

For instance, «Air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of moving a fully loaded 100 - car train of crude oil from North Dakota to the Gulf Coast are about $ 150,000 and from North Dakota to the East Coast are $ 210,000.

«Just one day after oil - friendly state governments complain about efforts to collect methane pollution data, out pops this cancellation,» she said.

They are greeted by shoals of fish, carpets of plastic pollution, the booms of seismic probes used to prospect for oil and an imagined rendering of a «lonely whale» that I wrote about long ago.

In the future, when fossil fuels are no longer the leading source of energy around the world and oil platforms aren't pumping oil from beneath the ocean floor, we won't have to worry about oil spills, but unfortunately, ocean pollution from spills, leaks and other sources is still a reality.

I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse effect, global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion, war, etc., etc., etc..

So far, the political pressure to produce domestic oil in a hurry has trumped public concern about the environmental cost of flaring, which includes local air pollution but mainly comes through the heat - trapping influence of the carbon dioxide produced when the gas is burned.

Incidentally, I have been unable to find out if the models which are producing the GW scenarios include some allowance for the fact that the ocean / atmosphere interface (the boundary layer, so called, an irritating nomenclature as the words already have a technical meaning) was changed drastically from about 1850 onwards by surfactant and oil spill pollution as the petrochemical industry and petrol engine technologies began to hit their stride.

The authors note that as fossil fuel reserves shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.

To put the 25,000 reporting threshold into perspective, it is the amount of pollution emitted from the annual energy use of about 2,200 homes, approximately 58,000 barrels of oil consumed, or 130 railcars of coal.

According to a study carried out by the United States National Academy of Sciences oil pollution from ships fell by about 60 % during the 1980s, coinciding with the entry into force of MARPOL 73/78.

Do we really care about oil sands, or do we care about carbon emissions, water pollution, etc?

(2) Western Europe was fearful about their dependence on Russia for oil and natural gas, and sought to reduce their levels of air pollution.

«Green economic growth is a focus for Chinese policy makers worried about rising costs for imported oil and social unrest sparked by pollution.

• Support for energy innovation today comes from those concerned about the high (and rising) economic costs, not to mention the foreign entanglements created by America's dependence on oil; the need for greater energy access in poor countries; diseases and deaths caused by air pollution, oil and gas drilling, and coal mining and waste; and the potential for America to manufacture and export new energy technologies at a profit.

As fossil fuel resources shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.

I sometimes wonder if there is a «good» environmentalism (which is about recycling, saving endangered species, and fighting toxic air and water pollution), and a «bad» environmentalism (which is about climate change, peak oil and overpopulation)...

Tar - sands oil is responsible for about a quarter more carbon pollution well - to - wheel than conventional oil.

As mega-storms like Hurricane Irma this year and Sandy in 2012 raised consciousness about the issue, companies even in the oil business have taken steps to rein in pollution and associate themselves with the green agenda.

«If we are serious about moving beyond oil toward energy independence, lowering the cost of energy, combating climate change, and cutting carbon pollution emissions, then we must ban offshore drilling,» it read.

Some Mitigationists (of all degrees of urgency) are also «no regrets» proponents of shifting away from fossil fuels for other reasons — peak - oil types, environmentalists worried about conventional air pollution, anti - automobile / anti-suburb activists, and so on.