Sentences with phrase «domestic use of natural gas»

Indeed, increased domestic use of natural gas is the foundation of a market - based approach that has produced energy and economic growth and falling CO2 emissions — bucking the historic pattern of growth leading to higher emissions.

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The rapid increase in domestic natural gas production from shale reserves has significantly impacted the economics of coal fuels used for power and heat in recent years.

Society should move as quickly as possible away from using natural gas for water heating and domestic and commercial space heating — uses which are equal to the use of gas to generate electricity in the US.

However, when used for domestic heating of water, the greenhouse gas footprint of natural gas is at least two - times larger than that of using modern electric - driven heat pumps.

We've got to expand nuclear; we've got to do clean coal, we've got to expand the use of hybrid vehicles, wind, solar, hydroelectric, liquid natural gas, natural gas, domestic oil, more refineries....

Fittingly, President Obama today was at Georgetown University, where he outlined a broad initiative to cut oil imports, boost domestic production of oil and gas, and increase the use of cellulosic ethanol and natural gas to power vehicles.

Both increasing domestic supply of natural gas and lower natural gas prices, together with the high efficiency of combined - cycle power plants, have contributed to their increased use.

It shows that, thanks largely to increased use of domestic natural gas, U.S. energy - related carbon emissions in 2015 were 12 percent lower than they were in 2005 — even though the economy last year was 15 percent larger than it was a decade before.

«A big part of the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that we've been able to manage in the United States is due to the fact... we've got trillions of cubic feet of natural gas that we are going to be able to produce safely, and our domestic supply has gone from one of scarcity to one that has enabled us to use more natural gas in baseload power consumption.»

Both would reduce the price of oil and natural gas and result in their more widespread availability for both domestic use and export.

The main reason for the decline is increased use of domestic natural gas — brought to our homes, work places and utility companies by our industry.

Low domestic natural gas prices have led to savings of almost $ 50 billion for customers who have used natural gas for heating, cooking and clothes drying over the past four years.

At the same time, increased use of domestic natural gas has helped reduce ozone concentrations in the air by 17 percent since 2005:

Thanks largely to increased use of domestic natural gas, U.S. energy - related carbon emissions in 2015 were 12 percent lower than they were in 2005 — even though the economy last year was 15 percent larger than it was a decade before.

China's goal by 2020 is to octuple domestic natural gas consumption from 39 billion cubic meters in 2004 to 200 billion cubic meters in 2020, raising the percentage of its energy use satisfied by clean - burning gas from three to nine percent.

Domestic U.S. oil and natural gas companies are pioneers in developing alternatives and expanding America's use of virtually every form of energy — from geothermal to wind, from solar to biofuels, from hydrogen power to the lithium ion battery for next - generation cars.

CPP will continue to be debated, yet it bears repeating: The U.S. has been significantly lowering its carbon dioxide emissions in the power sector without CPP implementation, mostly because market decisions to use increasing volumes of domestic natural gas.

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

The world's projected growing use of natural gas and the expectation that the United States will be a leading natural gas producer is important for our domestic production, economy and trading posture.

Instead of acknowledging this progress, the administration's piling on of new regulation could hinder domestic natural gas production, potentially reducing supply and natural gas use that has played a leading role in reducing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide to near 20 - year lows.

What we're seeing, of course, are the positive supply impacts of the U.S. energy renaissance — dramatic increases in domestic oil and natural gas production over the past several years, thanks to the safe development of shale and other tight - rock formations using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

As domestic oil production increases and the United States becomes increasingly reliant on natural gas for electricity and industrial uses, it is essential to take advantage of proven measures to reduce methane emissions.

At the same time, domestic exploitation of unconventional sources of natural gas, production of oil and gas from more difficult settings both onshore and offshore, and continued record - setting coal production using intensive methods, are producing new environmental conflicts.

Over 99 % of the natural gas used in the U.S. comes from domestic or other North... Keep Reading

«Thanks in part to the increased use of domestic natural gas, ozone concentrations in the air have dropped by 17 percent since 2000, all of which makes the United States not just an energy superpower, but also a leader in reducing global emissions.