Sentences with phrase «by the natural gas extraction»

As the New Jersey legislature votes to ban fracking, some word on what the EPA is doing to minimize the environmental damage which could be caused with unregulated hydraulic fracturing: Natural Gas Watch reports that EPA head Lisa Jackson has said that there may soon be Federal regulations dealing with air pollution caused by the natural gas extraction process.On the air quality issues, Jackson said:

This does not mean that we shouldn't worry about the problems caused by natural gas extraction and transport.

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Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Commission shall issue final rules that require each resource extraction issuer to include in an annual report of the resource extraction issuer information relating to any payment made by the resource extraction issuer, a subsidiary of the resource extraction issuer, or an entity under the control of the resource extraction issuer to a foreign government or the Federal Government for the purpose of the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals...

Pegula made his money in natural - gas development and the governor's administration is yet to make a decision on whether to allow high - volume hydrofracking in the state, a controversial extraction process that is supported by the energy industry, but staunchly opposed by environmental groups.

He was especially disappointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to ban high - volume hydrofracking, a natural gas extraction process believed to be a potential boon for the area.

Tracking Rep. John Faso in the Age of Trump from fivethirtyeight.com Disapprove Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers Rule — Vote Passed (235 - 187, 10 Not Voting) The measure would disapprove of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule issued in July 2016 that requires resource extraction issuers (companies that extract oil, natural gas orExtraction Issuers Rule — Vote Passed (235 - 187, 10 Not Voting) The measure would disapprove of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule issued in July 2016 that requires resource extraction issuers (companies that extract oil, natural gas orextraction issuers (companies that extract oil, natural gas or -LSB-...]

Scientific findings — and a lack of them — played a starring role in a controversial decision earlier this week by Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to essentially ban the natural gas extraction technique known as fracking in the Empire State.

These findings have been published by Matthew Lasich and Deresh Ramjugernath from the University of KwaZulu - Natal, Durban, South Africa, in EPJ B. Alternative applications for such findings are relevant for future energy research, such as energy storage and the development of natural gas extraction methods.

Several said they were uncertain about which fuels were the cleanest (for some, natural gas was perceived by some as dirty due to its extraction from hydro - fracking).

A NASA study has confirmed that the methane «hot spot» in the Four Corners region in the United States is caused by leaks from natural gas extraction.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

It is why natural - gas extraction — the controversial practice known as fracking — has been virtually free of environmental regulation since 2005, and why government - owned car companies get to use taxpayer money to lobby against stricter fuel - economy standards proposed by the government.

I was glad to see Joe Romm react to The New York Times investigation of water problems in gas country by sticking with his appropriately nuanced view of the need for responsible expansion of natural gas extraction.

These are only partly natural phenomena and they have been made worse by settlement decisions, canal development, loss of barrier wetlands, extraction of groundwater, oil, and natural gas, internal rainfall storage, and the design, construction, and failure of protective structures and inside levees rainfall storage.

He's also called for increased extraction of oil, coal, and natural gas reserves at a time when climate leaders are seeking to limit emissions by transitioning to renewable forms of energy.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

Increases in natural - gas extraction are being driven by rising energy demands, mandates for cleaner burning fuels, and the economics of energy use (1 — 5).

Its industry is buoyed by mineral extraction including coal and sodium bicarbonate, along with oil, natural gas and recreation.

By law, MLPs can currently only invest in energy as it pertains to oil, natural gas, coal extraction and pipeline projects.