Sentences with phrase «gas by environmental groups»

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Christian environmental groups have criticised the Church of England's stance on fracking, a controversial method of drilling for shale gas that has been linked by some anti-fracking organisations to water contamination.

This document - developed by Kennedy / Jenks Consultants and underwritten, in part, by the American Vineyard Foundation and Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)- builds on research and other activities undertaken by the Wine Institute Environmental Working Group of the Technical Committee, which guided the development of this publication for managing winery water and energy.

Pegula made his money in natural - gas development and the governor's administration is yet to make a decision on whether to allow high - volume hydrofracking in the state, a controversial extraction process that is supported by the energy industry, but staunchly opposed by environmental groups.

After winning a fracking ban, one of the most significant strikes against fossil fuel usage in the nation, New York's environmental groups are eager to score another victory such as a rejection of proposed natural gas pipelines by the state Department of Environmental environmental groups are eager to score another victory such as a rejection of proposed natural gas pipelines by the state Department of Environmental Environmental Conservation.

Astorino's choice also shows his attention to the Southern Tier, which Astorino contends was failed by Cuomo over his indecision over whether to expand drilling for natural gas, which is opposed by environmental groups.

The firm contracted by the state to help complete an environmental impact statement for the controversial natural gas drilling process hydrofracking clarified its relationship with an energy industry trade group in a letter to the Department of Environmental environmental impact statement for the controversial natural gas drilling process hydrofracking clarified its relationship with an energy industry trade group in a letter to the Department of Environmental Environmental Conservation.

Groups for and against fracking are gearing up for an announcement by Governor Cuomo's environmental officials on whether the natural gas drilling process will be permitted in New York on a limited basis.

As if we needed more evidence on Gannett's Jon Campbell's impact as the LCA's resident fracking scoop artist, a coalition of groups and Senate and Assembly Democrats today seizing on his report that one of the experts hired by the Department of Environmental Conservation to help write hydrofracking regulations is a member of the gas industry trade group.

Environmental groups were at the Capitol Tuesday calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to put renewable energy ahead of fossil fuels in his effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.

Financial support for this work was provided by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, BG Group PLC, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., Pioneer Natural Resources Company, SWEPI LP (Shell), Statoil, Southwestern Energy and XTO Energy, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.

Conflicting numbers The study was funded by a partnership of nine natural gas producers and the Environmental Defense Fund, a non-profit environmental group based in Washington DC, as part of a broad effort to trace methane leaks all the way from the wellheadEnvironmental Defense Fund, a non-profit environmental group based in Washington DC, as part of a broad effort to trace methane leaks all the way from the wellheadenvironmental group based in Washington DC, as part of a broad effort to trace methane leaks all the way from the wellhead to the user.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

In April, President Trump signed an executive order that reversed the Obama administration's ban on oil and gas development in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, though it is being contested in court by environmental groups.

The environmental group estimates that if all Americans adopted 14 such steps over the next decade the country would avoid one billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 — or the equivalent of the entire annual greenhouse gas emissions of Germany.

As the White House and Congress intensify efforts to restrict greenhouse gases linked by scientists to global warming, groups and individuals opposed to government solutions to environmental problems are similarly ramping up counterattacks.

When an economist at the Environmental Protection Agency rejected the Obama administration's stance on global warming by writing an unsolicited report challenging the scientific consensus on greenhouse dangers, groups fighting restrictions on greenhouse gases hailed him as a courageous maverick.

Other approaches to safeguarding the bears, like the push by some environmental groups to restrict emissions of greenhouse gases under the Endangered Species Act, are likely to be about as effective as trying to stop a bus from rolling down a hill by suing the manufacturer over faulty brakes.

The US Climate Action Partnership, a consortium of major businesses and environmental groups, just announced that its members are committing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 90 % by 2050.

A new study by an environmental group suggests that reining in a handful of America's coal - fired power plants would have a major impact on greenhouse gas emissions.

Authored by an international group of public health, environmental, and other scientists, each focuses on one sector in which greenhouse - gas emissions need to be reduced.

Imagine lobbyists for the Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Nature Conservancy controlled an EPA rulemaking panel that would decide whether a petition to cap greenhouse gas emissions sponsored by the U.S. Climate Action Partnership — an alliance that includes all three aforementioned environoia groups — would become law.

The Independent Online reports that an unprecedented coalition of blue - chip US companies and environmental lobby groups will urge President Bush next week to get serious about global warming, calling for caps on carbon dioxide emissions that would cut greenhouse gases by 10 - 30 per cent over 15 years.

«Gas Firm Funded Sierra Club Campaign --» From 2007 to 2010, Chesapeake Energy poured $ 26 million into the anti-coal campaign by the Sierra Club, a tax - exempt environmental group.»»

As governor of Utah, he appeared in a 2007 ad for an environmental advocacy group in which he said, «Now it's time for Congress to act by capping greenhouse gas pollution.»

The groups, represented by Western Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's decision to approve 287 oil and gas leases totaling almost 150,000 acres in south central, north central, and southeastern Montana.

Documents on climate change prepared for or by industry groups including the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Oil & Gas Association and the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association.

On June 26, 2012, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected 26 separate requests by various states and industry groups to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) greenhouse gas regulations.

After a Massachusetts court sided with a group of teenagers by ruling the state had failed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, [55] Marc Morano — executive director of CFACT's ClimateDepot project — claimed today's youth are being indoctrinated by the environmental movement: [56]

After a Massachusetts court sided with a group of teenagers by ruling the state had failed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, [57] Marc Morano claimed that today's youth are being indoctrinated by the environmental movement: [58]

Brussels, 2 October 2007 - Hopes of curtailing the rapid growth of greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation sector have been hampered by the European Parliament's environment committee, say environmental groups Transport & Environment, WWF, Friends of the Earth and Climate Action Network.

Judge Anthony W. Ishii of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled in favor of the state of California and environmental groups Environmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club in a case brought by the automobile industry seeking to strike down the state's greenhenvironmental groups Environmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club in a case brought by the automobile industry seeking to strike down the state's greenhEnvironmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club in a case brought by the automobile industry seeking to strike down the state's greenhouse gas law.

Misleading claims about shale gas development serve dogma but not the public interest by Paul Driessen The Sierra Club and other environmental pressure groups are redoubling their efforts to «stop fracking in its tracks.»

WASHINGTON — The amount of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, released by the nation's power plants grew by nearly 3 percent last year, the largest annual increase in nearly a decade, an environmental group said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, DC — Environmental and community groups are bitterly denouncing today's decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to approve permits for the controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility proposed at Cove Point in southern Maryland.

WASHINGTON, DC, June 28, 2006 (ENS)- The United States has five percent of the world's population and 30 percent of the world's automobiles, but the country contributes 45 percent of the world's automotive emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, according to a report released today by the advocacy group Environmental Defense.

Environmental groups have reported that the current rush to gas by electric utilities is not compatible with the goals for greenhouse gas reductions that the U.S. set in the Paris Agreement.

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

In other words, even if claims by EDF and virtually every other environmental group that U.S. oil and gas methane emissions are underestimated — they are almost certainly not a significant percentage of global emissions.

Sponsored by three activist groups — Oil Change International, Environmental Action, and The Other 98 % — the 30 - second ad was part of a crowd - funded campaign to point out the fatal flaw in ExxonMobil's business model to maximize oil and gas extraction across the globe regardless of the growing threat to the stability of Earth's climate system and thus the livability of the planet for our children, their children, and future generations.

Lambasted as a «carve - up «deal by critics for barring several nations and environmental groups from participating, the U.S., Norway, Russia, Denmark and Canada agreed to abide by the 1982 Law of the Sea in managing the region's vast oil and gas reserves.