Sentences with phrase «from public land»

First they need to figure out how much of our energy comes from public land.

Coal, oil, and gas are extracted from public land and transported over public right - of - ways, leaving behind an array of local pollutants.

She's a dental hygienist married to a good fellow named Lance (Luke Wilson), who clears brush from public land and just may be the sweetest man alive.

Last week, federal agents swooped in on 23 of the 24 people indicted on charges of stealing archaeological artifacts from public land and Indian reservations in the Southwest.

House Democrats have launched a perpetual U.S. mining reform crusade proposing measures that would force miners to pay royalties for minerals extracted from public lands and contribute to a fund for clean - up costs.

In response to another question from Sanders, Zinke said he supported extracting fossil fuel from public lands along with supporting wind and solar power, calling for an «all - of - the - above» approach to energy production.

Though he hasn't provided many specifics, Trump has publicly said he is eager to streamline the process and make it as easy as possible for energy companies to extract fossil fuels from public lands, which are the source of about 24 percent of America's fossil fuels, including about 40 percent of all the coal produced in the U.S.

The federal government has proposed new guidelines to reduce methane pollution from public lands

CURWOOD: So, if I hear you correctly, Pat, you're saying perhaps the strong if not the strongest strategy here would be to be suing the federal government for selling off fossil fuels from public lands and waters at a time when the government knows that the combustion of those fuels is in the process of destroying the planet?

(But first, check if this is legal in your area — taking anything from public lands might not be a good idea.)

Proposition 300 Would direct earnings from public lands that are above the 2000 - 01 level to be deposited in the state classroom - site fund, to be used for such things as class - size reduction, teacher raises, and school facility bond...

Funds from the Public Lands Highways Discretionary program supplement their existing infrastructure programs.

We must block fossil fuel interests who aim to squeeze every last drop of oil from public lands, off - shore, and wilderness areas.

Put another way, Congress could raise all of the funds needed to support long - term investments in this Energy Security Trust by increasing royalties paid for producing oil and gas from public lands and waters by an amount less than the typical daily fluctuations of oil and gas commodity prices.

, the fossil fuel energy produced from public lands included 706 million barrels of oil, 3.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 421 million tons of coal, contributing billions of tons worth of carbon pollution.

In 2014 alone, the fossil fuel energy produced from public lands included 706 million barrels of oil, 3.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 421 million tons of coal, contributing billions of tons worth of carbon pollution.

Nearly 90 % of coal produced from public lands is from leases in the Powder River Basin (PRB) of Wyoming and Montana.

Stopping fossil fuels coming from public lands will likely be critical to decreasing U.S. emissions.

Oil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussed.

Reports have found that oil and gas produced from our public lands is responsible for 10 % of our nation's total greenhouse gas emissions.

Ending the production of coal, oil and natural gas from public lands and waters could significantly reduce CO2 emissions by the US, according to a new study.

Now, the company is once again seeking cheap access to more of our coal, so it can strip - mine it from public lands and export it to lucrative markets in Asia.

Helped along by both President Obama and Bernie Sanders, Clinton has broken her silence on fossil fuel extraction from public lands.

About Blog This is a home for true nature stories and photography, mostly from public lands near my home in San Francisco.

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Even a tweet from Trump criticizing China the night before Tillerson landed in Beijing did not, at least in public, create any discord.

In a 2015 paper from the Brookings Institution, senior researcher Elaine Karmarck writes that the USPS «exists in never - never land,» since it's neither a fully public nor private organization.

Demanding non-competetive lease arrangements for drilling on public land does not prevent Oil companies from railing against government red tape.

And in the political sphere, finance has become the great defender of deregulating monopolies and «freeing» land rent and asset - price gains from taxation, translating its economic power and campaign contributions into the political power to capture control of public financial regulation.

Margaret A. Reigle, a certified public accountant who was founder and chairwoman of the property - rights group Fairness to Land Owners Committee, died March 2 from dementia at Symphony Manor, a Roland Park assisted - living facility.

The task of rhetoric is to divert attention from the fact that the financial sector aims not to «free» markets, but to place control in the hands of financial managers — whose logic is to subject economies to austerity and even depression, sell off public land and enterprises, suffer emigration and reduce living standards in the face of a sharply increasing concentration of wealth at the top of the economic pyramid.

It's also giving the fossil fuels sector whiplash from a White House whose energy policies have otherwise been very good to them, from starting to undo greenhouse gas regulations to opening more public land to mining and drilling and tax cuts.

Russian labor is to be paid wages above subsistence levels only to the extent that it can be taxed, thereby «freeing» as much non-wage income as possible from taxation — in particular, income for the privatized land, mineral resources and hitherto public utilities.

In «Tapping the Land: Tax Increment Financing of Infrastructure,» author Adam Found shows how cities could use tax increment financing (TIF) to finance infrastructure ranging from sports arenas to public transit.

From an economic standpoint, the survey tapped into public opinion about how landing Amazon's so - called HQ2 would impact local businesses and a city's attractiveness to other businesses.

Same - sex marriage's journey from minority status to the law of the land offers important lessons about gaining broad - based public support that fiduciary advocates can gain from.

It is that aspect of the law that frightens environmental groups that have fought for years for the coal - mining rule and another rule to restrict energy companies from burning off natural gas during drilling operations on public lands.

Such gaps tend to narrow for a number of reasons, including higher marginal productivity on cheaper labor and land costs in lower - tier cities, better economic integration with government - led redistribution of infrastructure and public resources from regional hubs to small neighbor cities, and broader penetration of technology, including smartphones and the internet, according to the Morgan Stanley research.

I've seen them protest crosses on private land that can be seen from public places.

I would say most individuals have moved on from fantasy land but they re scared to death to admit it in public based on upbringing of us born before 1980.

It declares in substance, «When the gods named me Hammurabi to cause righteousness to prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil, to prevent the strong from plundering the weak, to enlighten the land and to further the welfare of the people... I established law and justice in the land and promoted the welfare of the public.

• The necessary funds must come from fines and private mawqufat (endowments) taken into public ownership, as when the owners of land or goods die without heirs.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

During a public hearing Monday, Heitman gave a 45 - minute presentation that included a proposal to purchase the building and 3 acres of land from the Park District.

There is a new 10 - acre park in Winfield in need of a name, and Central DuPage Hospital, which owns the land, is inviting suggestions from the public to get the job done.

After a presentation from staff, Lisle Village Board members agreed that the land, originally earmarked for a public works site, was no longer needed.

The Park District Board, though voting to pursue the property, attached four conditions to its cooperation with the village, and one of them is essentially what Regan wants from the village as well: public access to the land.

Officials with the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco - based, non-profit conservation group, announced they have bought a half - acre lot in the 2700 block of West Fullerton Avenue, across the street from Haas Park.

The key issue is an incentive package from the village that might include almost free use of public land for the private venture.

The Park District argued money from the sale of the parcel — a sloped area in the park's northwest corner with trees, grass and a maintenance shed — would benefit the public more than the land itself.

The park district argued that the money from a sale could benefit the public more than the land.