Sentences with phrase «billions of acres»

Republican operatives, not satisfied with the good publicity from their party's War on Women, are amplifying decades - old demands that the Federal government hand over billions of acres of Federal land to State and local officials.

Try saying «post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy» ten times fast.Washington Examiner (4/29/13) reports: «No wonder Institute for Energy Research President Thomas J. Pyle contends that «Obama has kept keep billions of acres of federal lands and waters behind the most onerous regulatory blockade in American history.

We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment.

We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with electrified glass that emits electromagnetic intereference (EMI) does to the global environment.

Back here on Earth, this once - gorgeous planet, now plodded and trammeled by doomed and flatulent cattle, shall see its scenery restored when billions of acres are replanted with swards of lush, sky - thickening rain forest.

Glyphosate, the main ingredient used in Roundup Ready, is the most common herbicide in the world, sprayed on many billions of acres of crops each year.

The 1.4 billion of acres of thriving, sprawling biology that cover the Amazon help drive the very metabolism of a continent.

The plants will also utilize billions of acre - feet of Ogallala Aquifer cooling water during a 50 - year plant life.

Not exact matches

So if he buys up a chunk of your company, take it as a mark of confidence: The sale of CPPIB's stake in auto parts manufacturer Gates Corp. for $ 1.5 billion and its $ 128 - million purchase of 115,000 acres of Saskatchewan farmland are just two recent examples that show no deal is too big or small for the CCPIB head honcho.

For that, we could buy all U.S. cropland (400 million acres with output of about $ 200 billion annually), plus 16 Exxon Mobils (the world's most profitable company, one earning more than $ 40 billion annually).

The study, conducted by Eli Lilly's (lly) Elanco Animal Health division at the request of the National Chicken Council, said that if one - third of U.S. broilers switched to slower growing breeds, that would mean 33.5 billion pounds more feed, 7.6 million acres / year more land, 28.5 billion pounds of manure, and 5.1 billion additional gallons of water.

Stuyvesant Town, a sprawling complex of 56 high - rise brick buildings with a private park on 80 acres on Manhattan's East Side, was at the center of a $ 3 billion default five years ago.

At the time, the Stennis Space Center, located on 13,800 acres and home to billions of dollars of rocket - engine testing equipment, was generating a tremendous amount of research and knowledge, but no business growth.

The region's highways are in the midst of significant renovations, with $ 1.9 billion going to a rebuild of eight miles of I - 95 from Cottman Avenue to Spring Garden Street by 2030, and $ 1.1 billion on a Pennsylvania Turnpike project to remake the junction of that highway with I - 95, a project that could be important for Bensalem's bid for the headquarters on 675 acres of riverfront land.

Previously, Adam served as Vice President of Residential Development and Construction at Forest City Ratner Companies, managing the development of Pacific Park Brooklyn, the $ 4.9 billion, 22 - acre mixed - use development in the heart of Brooklyn.

She led the efforts to build Barclays Center, the state - of - the - art sports and entertainment venue and the centerpiece of the $ 4.9 billion, 22 - acre mixed - use Pacific Park Brooklyn development.

Previously, Susi served as Executive Vice President of Development for Forest City Ratner Companies, leading the Residential Development team on execution of Pacific Park Brooklyn, the $ 4.9 billion, 22 - acre mixed - use development in the heart of Brooklyn.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) works closley with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to protect America's 1.7 Billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

Shanghai - based Greenland Real Estate Group contracted Cumming to carry out a peer review of their current budgets on phase one of its $ 1.2 billion, 6.33 - acre Metropolis development located north of LA Live.

Now 1MDB has agreed to sell 60 percent of one of Kuala Lumpur's biggest real - estate projects, a 486 - acre site called Bandar Malaysia that will become a key transport hub, to Iskandar Waterfront Holdings and its partner, state - run China Railway Engineering, for 7.4 billion ringgit.

Furthermore, while 64 per cent of families own or are in the process of buying their residences, the residential sector occupies only 2 per cent of the 1.3 billion acres of privately held land.

The goal of 250,000 organic acres will bring General Mills closer to its objective of reaching $ 1 billion in net sales from natural and organic products by 2019, nearly doubling the current total of $ 675 million net from organic General Mills products.

With the new factory, Uflex is set to enter the aseptic packaging industry that could grow to more than $ 67.47 billion in 2021 worldwide, according to Zion Research Uflex earned Rs6, 200 crore in revenue last year and bought 72 acres of land for the new Gujarat plant.

This deal is part of a larger effort on the part of General Mills to reach a goal of $ 1 billion in organic and natural food sales by 2019 and to increase the number of organic acres from which it sources its ingredients to 250,000 over the next three years.

We grow over 1 / 3rd of the potatoes produced in the United States, harvesting more than 13 billion pounds of Idaho potatoes each year on about 325,000 acres.

BOISE, Idaho, October 29, 2004 - Idaho Potato growers will harvest approximately 348,000 acres of Idaho Potatoes this year, producing 13.2 billion pounds of potatoes.

It is being reported that Kroenke bought some real estate in Texas totalling around 520,000 acres for a price in excess of half a billion dollars.

Where others see merely 2,500 acres of wetlands, quarries and canals here on the eastern fringe of the Everglades midway between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, he imagines the biggest new tourist attraction to arise in Florida since Disney World, a $ 1 billion sports and entertainment complex he calls Blockbuster Park.

The state Court of Appeals upheld the Empire State Development Corp.'s use of eminent domain to help Columbia University with its $ 6.3 billion expansion project over 17 acres in Harlem.

In 2014, Pegula sold the gas drilling rights of thousands of acres of land in Ohio for $ 1.75 billion.

Avella contends the businesses were being targeted because they lie in the footprint of a $ 3 billion project to redevelop 23 acres of Willets Point.

For the two years before his federal indictment, Lipsky was one of the most prominent voices in defending Willets Point United, a coalition of small business and property owners in Willets Point who have sought to fight the city's plans to replace the 62 - acre district of auto repair shops and factories with a $ 3 billion development project.

Aquatic Development Group of Colonie will design and build a two - acre indoor waterpark for The Kartrite Hotel on the $ 1.2 billion Resorts World Catskills campus in Monticello.

In 2009, the borough president and community board voted to approve plans for a $ 1 billion NYPD cadet training facility, which will sit on 35 acres of land and house 2,000 parking spaces when complete.

«They steward nearly one billion acres of land and meet one of our most basic needs — producing the food our nation eats.»

Under his leadership, New Yorkers paid $ 140 billion less in taxes, we became the safest large state in America and preserved over one million acres of open space.

In the largest down payment on his Buffalo billion - dollar commitment, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo this morning will announce the creation of a clean - energy research campus on 90 acres of land along the Buffalo River that will include two initial tenants moving from California to create 850 jobs.

Resort World Orange County has proposed a $ 1.8 billion casino located on the 238 - acre Renaissance Faire and Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center property located in the Orange County town of Tuxedo.

Finally the report calls for a «reimagining» and redevelopment of Rikers Island, which when it closes will provide a «blank slate» of 400 acres of land, which the report said could be used to expand LaGuardia airport or house solar power facilities, and other city infrastructure, which the report said could bring in $ 7.5 billion in annual economic activity.

It has raised $ 1.1 billion and preserved more than 10,000 acres of land.

The neonic entered broad use in the U.S. in the late 1990s and quickly became ubiquitous, used on millions of acres of corn, cotton, soybeans, canola and more, accounting for about $ 2.5 billion in sales.

Before European settlers arrived, the billion acres of grasses that blanketed the High Plains were home to pronghorn antelope and swift fox, lesser prairie chickens and burrowing owls as well as buffalo.

«We have really focused on the safety of our biotech crops, growing on more than a billion acres,» Padgette says.

If 60 million acres of land, approximately the area of Oregon, were given over to algae cultivation, «we could reasonably produce 300 billion gallons of algae biofuels per year.»

«Now, with a billion acres of these crops planted over the past 16 years, and with the data accumulated over that period, we have a better scientific understanding of how fast the insects evolve resistance and why.»

Since 1996, farmers worldwide have planted more than a billion acres (400 million hectares) of genetically modified corn and cotton that produce insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt for short.

Because each of us requires a minimum of 1,500 calories a day, civilization will have to cultivate another Brazil's worth of land — 2.1 billion acres — if farming continues to be practiced as it is today.

«Now we have a cumulative total of over 2 billion acres of these crops planted during the past two decades and extensive monitoring data, so we can build a scientific understanding of how fast the pests evolve resistance and why.»

They burned seven million acres of land and cost 1.6 billion dollars in damage.

The year 2005 marked the tenth anniversary of large - scale cultivation of biotech crops, with more than a billion cumulative acres of production.