Sentences with phrase «gallons of oil waste»

Back in 2011, the giant Chevron corporation was found guilty of illegally dumping billions of gallons of oil waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest in what has been described as the Amazon's «Chernobyl» and the worst case of oil pollution on the planet.

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The pollution judgment against Chevron issued in 2011 based on 105 technical evidentiary reports showing the oil major dumped billions of gallons of cancer - causing oil waste onto Indigenous ancestral lands.

During the 2010 - 2011 school year, the department composted 143 tons of food waste, collected 4,533 gallons of used cooking oil (to create biodiesel fuel) and recycled more than 150 tons of cardboard, glass and plastic.

Collected materials include (please note, these are estimates, the final numbers are provided by Hazardous Waste Contractor): 13,644 gallons of paint 2800 pounds of Aerosols 660 gallons of flammable liquids 1650 pounds of pesticides 825 gallons of corrosive materials 220 gallons of oxidizers 960 gallons of waste oil 175 gallons of antifreeze Plus mercury, batteries, and gas!

Mandates like the U.S. renewable fuel standard, which calls for production of 36 billion gallons per year by 2022, are useful in promoting low - carbon fuels, like waste vegetable oil for biodiesel, said Malins.

A short distance away from the murky pond, an oil services company had begun pumping millions of gallons of drilling waste into an injection well.

Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or nuclear accidents or radioactive waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.