Sentences with phrase «fuel industry operations»

Richard Heede, described by Science Magazine as «the Climate Accountant,» painstakingly assembled data from corporate reports to calculate the amount of carbon dioxide and methane originating primarily with major corporate and nationalized fossil fuel industry operations — both directly and from the use of their products.

Not exact matches

Actual operational and financial results of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet will likely also vary, and may vary materially, from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected for a number of other reasons, including, in addition to those identified above: the challenges and costs of integrating operations and realizing anticipated synergies and other benefits from the acquisition of ExpressJet; the challenges of competing successfully in a highly competitive and rapidly changing industry; developments associated with fluctuations in the economy and the demand for air travel; the financial stability of SkyWest's major partners and any potential impact of their financial condition on the operations of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines, or ExpressJet; fluctuations in flight schedules, which are determined by the major partners for whom SkyWest's operating airlines conduct flight operations; variations in market and economic conditions; significant aircraft lease and debt commitments; residual aircraft values and related impairment charges; labor relations and costs; the impact of global instability; rapidly fluctuating fuel costs, and potential fuel shortages; the impact of weather - related or other natural disasters on air travel and airline costs; aircraft deliveries; the ability to attract and retain qualified pilots and other unanticipated factors.

To fuel this growth, the company is seeking experienced multi-unit foodservice and retail operators with a passion for the industry who demonstrate community involvement and will be committed to day - to - day operations.

For many years fracking industry groups insisted their member companies never used diesel fuels in their operations.

«Based on actual industry practices, diesel fuel use has already been effectively phased out of hydraulic fracturing operations,» Fuller said.

NextGen should also reduce the aviation industry's environmental impact, saving more than 1.4 billion gallons of fuel from air traffic operations alone, and cutting carbon emissions by nearly 14 million tons by 2018, the FAA says

The decision to retain holdings in the fossil fuel industry flies in the face of recommendations from a climate change committee appointed by Reif, which this summer issued a report noting that three - quarters of the committee supported «targeted divestment from companies whose operations are heavily focused on the exploration for and / or extraction of the fossil fuels that are least compatible with mitigating climate change.»

Taking action to produce cleaner operations and cleaner products takes money — and industry is spending it to invent substitute and less carbon - intensive fuels, by supporting technologies such as wind, solar, biofuels, geothermal and others, and by improving efficiency and pursuing technologies such as carbon capture and storage and advanced technology vehicles.

Regulators and the fossil fuel industry say offshore fracking operations have a good safety record and tend to be smaller in size compared to onshore operations, but environmentalists continue to worry about the chemicals used in the process because many of them are known to harm marine wildlife.

Wind industry watchers expect a lot of money to be invested in projects that can go into operation before the PTC expires at the end of 2012, fueling a wind boom.

This is because CCS can work with existing fossil fuel plants which are likely to be in operation for decades, and with industries such as steel which are energy intense but do not use electricity.

«IMO member countries must now capitalize on this momentum by bringing forward concrete proposals in time for the May 2017 MEPC meeting, both to ensure the end of the HFO era, and that the shipping industry starts transitioning towards cleaner fuels as it expands its operations in the Arctic's fragile and sensitive environment,» continued Grabiel.

Unlike Koch, most of those fortunes did not come from owning a corporation like Koch Industries, historically rooted in fossil fuel operations.

Fifth Circuit grants rehearing en banc of lawsuit alleging that the operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming, resulting in the harms caused by Hurricane Katrina: Nine judges participated in last week's order granting rehearing en banc.