Sentences with phrase «fight over gas»

Updates below Last year, after opponents of hydraulic fracturing made much of an unpublished paper by a doctoral candidate in economics who reported finding health impacts in infants from nearby gas drilling operations, I wrote a piece titled «When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in the Fight Over Gas Impacts.»

The happy version, if you're Duncan, is that hard - pressed states are thankful for any relief, and Congress is too distracted by fights over the gas tax, the FAA, the super-committee proposal, and next year's budget to pay attention.

Not exact matches

She should expect an equally fierce fight over her natural gas ambitions.

However, his gas tank ran out as the fight went on, and Mayweather took over and dominated the later rounds.

I think he's far more vulnerable in a five round fight, where Khabib's more proven technique and gas tank would take over

I'll go over the best and most - recommended formulas for fighting gas, and the pros and cons of each.

As I am sitting here writing this contribution at 8:50 in the morning, I can already hear signs of the relentless fighting that has been going on for over ten days around Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem: Soldiers shooting tear gas canisters, military jets are flying over the area, ambulances rushing to the scene and hundreds of impatient drivers waiting to cross the area honking without let - up.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is busy girding itself for a fight over new greenhouse gas emissions rules, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case on whether lawsuits over climate ought to be permitted.

While reporting a story at the time on the intensifying battle over climate attitudes, between those trying to convince the public to embrace cuts in greenhouse gases and those fighting such a move, I interviewed David Hawkins of the Natural Resources Defense Council, who said the group was eagerly seeking such photos.

11:15 p.m. Updated below As I promised in an earlier post on transparency and conflicts of interest in the fight over natural gas drilling, here's my piece on the importance of peer review in gauging the merits of research findings wielded by the «ban» or «bonanza» factions in this continuing battle.

Fracking Bryan R. Walsh of Time Magazine has beautifully summarized energy issues that are simmering today as President Obama takes his education - oriented bus tour to Binghamton, N.Y., at the epicenter of the fight over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the gas drilling boom it has spawned:

The next failure to compromise came in the fight over adding a «safety valve» provision to limit unanticipated high costs from greenhouse gas restrictions, something Joe Romm and many others rejected out of hand at the time, even though Romm last year (around minute 37 in this videotaped panel discussion) noted the need for pragmatism to get things started: «The game changer for the world isn't between no price for carbon and a high price.

As I've said here before, it's inevitable that environmental lawyers engaged in the fight over greenhouse gases will use whatever statutes they think help their case (and whatever public relations stunts, including dressing up as a bear at climate negotiations).

It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in money and influence held by industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil fuels.

Anyone tracking the long fight over curbing greenhouse gases can see the tendency of the most passionate advocates on either side to try to build their cases around certainty.

In a passage that will likely hearten those seeing the climate change fight as a fight over capitalism, leaked version includes the pope's rejection of markets in carbon credits as a solution, warning (this is The Guardian translation) that this «could give rise to a new form of speculation and would not help to reduce the overall emission of polluting gases.»

«After his retirement General Honoré found that there are environmental damages being caused in America and that our democracy and way of life that he fought for is being taken over by huge oil and gas companies.

By walking out of COP19, we're walking into a fight with the real enemies to progress: the coal, oil and gas companies that have a stranglehold over our governments and economy.

Oil and gas are too geographically concentrated, which leads to despotic «rentier» governments in the oil - and - gas producing lands, as well as wars fought over the resources.

«We know that many Republicans are going to try their best to repeal the administration's authority to regulate greenhouse gases, and so we are going to band together and have a fight over those issues.»

Alarmists want to fight the war over whether the greenhouse gas effect of CO2 is true and whether the world has seen warming over the last century, both propositions that skeptics like myself accept.

«They will be less able to fight over climate change than they were before and they will retreat in a process fight over defending the coal industry and the oil and gas industry.»

On Mr. Tillerson's watch, ExxonMobil was at the forefront of efforts to gut laws to fight corruption in the oil, gas and mining sector, and has been accused of purposefully misleading the public over climate change.

In addition to representing individuals and families affected by negligent fracking practices, Houston toxic tort attorney Neal Davis fights for oil and gas industry workers injured in fracking accidents all over the state of Texas.

But the fight is not over: incoming President Donald Trump, who previously held a direct financial interest in the gas company proposing the pipeline, put it back on the agenda in one of his first acts of office.