Sentences with phrase «from oil and»

The recent strong increase in fossil fuel CO2 emissions is mainly driven by an increase in emissions from coal, whereas emissions from oil and gas to a large degree follow the trend from the 1990s.

She received $ 12,335 from the oil and gas industry in the 2008 and 2010 election cycles, in total, according to FollowTheMoney.org.

Since 1998, Earthjustice has gone to court three times to protect this region from oil and gas leasing and its harmful effects on sensitive areas, including calving and insect - relief habitats for caribou, molting and nesting areas for various birds, and subsistence hunting and fishing grounds for local people.

Tim Ball claimed in the programme that «I've never received a nickel from the oil and gas companies.»

On the whole, sponsors and co-sponsors from the six states in which the ALEC bill was proposed were recipients of $ 44,409 in campaign money from the oil and gas industry, a miniscule down payment for some of the most lucrative corporations known in the history of mankind.

Methane valued at more than $ 1 billion escapes from oil and natural gas extraction processes in the U.S. each year, enough to heat 7 million homes.

This includes announcing a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, repealing the Clean Power Plan, rolling back vehicle fuel economy standards, attempting to rescind rules on methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands, ending the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, and opening additional offshore areas to oil and gas leasing.

A late influx of campaign money from oil and utilities industries sought to torpedo the measure.

Trump's EPA would allow wastewater from oil and gas wells, including fracked wells, to make its way into US rivers, streams, lakes and reservoirs after some treatment.

Peru's indigenous people continue to face threats from oil and mineral exploration on their land.

The three ALEC members received a total of $ 9,514 from the oil and gas industry in the 2008 and 2010 election cycles in campaign money combined, and the four of them together received $ 13,814 in campaign cash from the oil and gas industry, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics» FollowTheMoney.org.

Campaign finance records bear out that claim: Over the last two election cycles, Texas state lawmakers have received more than $ 11.3 million from the oil and gas industry, including $ 2.3 million for Texas State House Speaker Joe Straus.

While Mr. Kempthorne and Dale Hall, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, said Wednesday that they saw no separate risk to polar bears from oil and gas activity, the latest assessment of the species for the International Conservation Union, by a group of experts including Fish and Wildlife Service biologists, did include such activity in a list of threats, including toxic contaminants, shipping and recreational viewing.

The Friends of Science were at the time running a public campaigning against climate action while denying that their funding was coming from the oil and gas industry.

We are implementing scaled - up, real - world initiatives to attack large sources of emissions, such as methane from landfills and from oil and gas production; black carbon from heavy - duty diesel engines; and HFCs used in refrigeration and air conditioners.

But the money for such campaigns by candidates does come from oil and gas interests, who do spend considerable effort on tribal positioning for greatest effect.

Among them are seismologists who study the possible link between earthquakes in Azle and injection wells that hold wastewater from oil and gas development.

The Senate passed the bill despite pressure from the oil and gas industry.

Energy experts signaled support of Obama's comments on energy security, including a plan for an Energy Security Trust to use revenue from oil and gas production on public lands to fund new energy research.

The greenhouse gas inventory it filed with the UN suggests fugitive emissions from the oil and gas sector made up a third of its total footprint in 2014.

As we look at the Obama administration's plan to impose new regulations on methane emissions from oil and natural gas operations, some important points.

In an interview with Salon, Helen reveals that she and David have intentionally kept a low profile, quietly doing their work, avoiding the media and ignoring detractors from the oil and gas industry.

They're really trying to supress the truth for short term windfall gain from oil and mining while they screw our future generations... delusional...

The potential profits from oil and gas extraction are enormous, but extracting it poses risks to the environment.

Still, Tillerson said issues such as global poverty were more pressing than climate change, and billions of people without access to energy would benefit from oil and gas supplies.

Those who study energy patterns say we are in a gradual transition from oil and coal to natural gas, a fuel that emits far less carbon but still contributes to global warming.

Environmental groups want more regulation targeting methane emissions from oil and natural gas production.

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — Conservation and environmental groups filed a lawsuit today to protect the nation's largest public lands reserve from oil and gas industrialization.

4) The reduced seasonality (e.g. 3) will likely place additional stress on human populations already under pressure from oil and gas development.

For more, read my recent piece on «Waste Not: Common Sense Ways to Reduce Methane Pollution from the Oil and Natural Gas Industry,» a set of recommendations from a coalition of environmental groups.

The problem with this concept is that even if oil and gas prices are likely to increase in the future, thus increasing federal revenues from oil and gas leases on public lands, any such revenue coming from areas already open to production will be considered by CBO as already included in the baseline revenue picture.

I've been quick to credit BP for its aggressive measures to stanch leaks of methane from its oil and gas fields.

from the oil and gas industry and their allies in the Republican Party.

«I am a geophysicist, all my income for my 30 years of professional life has come directly or indirectly from the oil and gas industry.»

«However, this department has investigated numerous complaints of potential contamination problems resulting from oil and gas drilling.»

I've done some writing in this arena, most notably in my coverage of opportunities to stanch vast leaks of natural gas (most of which is methane, a potent greenhouse gas) from oil and gas facilities around the world.

The data presented by Miller et al. constrains the overall leak rate from the oil and gas supply chains — providing an independently derived aggregate estimate of fossil fuel sources of methane emissions.

They pledged to cut such emissions 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025 from the oil and gas sector.

Building on a history of working together to reduce air emissions, Canada and the U.S., commit to take action to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, the world's largest industrial methane source, in support of achieving our respective international climate change commitments.

-- Capturing natural gas that would otherwise be released from oil and gas wells can reduce methane pollution by an estimated 260,000 to 500,000 metric tons per year.

The steps are laid out in «Waste Not: Common Sense Ways to Reduce Methane Pollution from the Oil and Natural Gas Industry,» the summary of a forthcoming report aimed at shaping new standards for methane pollution that the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue later this year.

And there is plenty that can be done to stanch emissions from the oil and gas industry.

Now it's becoming clear that this simple and affordable technology has played a two - pronged role in helping the Environmental Protection Agency, in the face of perpetual industry resistance, move toward clamping down on leaks of methane and other compounds from oil and gas wells, tanks and other facilities.

The infrared camera, though, is doing more than just cutting emission and reducing costs; it's changing the attitudes of the public and policy makers about the need to reduce emissions from the oil and gas sector.

For example, is the seabed there riddled with unplugged boreholes from oil and gas exploration?

Featured are 22 works, from oil and watercolor paintings to collage, by Kira Nam Greene, Juan Hinojosa, Simone Meltesen, Karen Schiff, Sam Vernon and Rachael Wren.

They are accompanied by «attributes», their cargos, varying from oil and car - parts to tomatoes, and their vehicle, such as a boat, car or motorbike.

Fourteen accomplished female artists will exhibit over 40 works ranging from oil and acrylic paintings, drawings, collage, watercolor, ceramic sculpture and photography.

Beginning in 1961 with Untitled (DSS 25) he began producing three - dimensional wall mounted reliefs and the first example was constructed from oil and sand painted plywood with a concave upper and lower edge made from galvanized iron.