Sentences with phrase «gas than any other state»

Pennsylvania accounted for 19 % of total U.S. marketed natural gas production in 2017 and produced more natural gas than any other state except Texas.

NY uses more natural gas than any other state except CA and TX.

Not exact matches

Second, many states actively favor renewables in electricity generation, and even in places that don't, the word has gotten out that coal combustion is far deadlier to humans than any other electric generation source — including natural gas.

PDX — It doesn't take a Genius to realize from my statements that i have read things other than the Bible you moron i have spent many hours reading and listening to scientists about their theories on the big bang, i have listened to ideas from the most revered scientists including Hawking and others, and they all admit that there are holes in their theories, that nothing fully explains their big bang theory, the physics doesn't add up let alone the concept, there are plenty of scientists hard at work trying to make the numbers fit and the theory hold weight but if you ask any of them they can not give you the answers and the reason being... there are none, the theory doesn't work, If by the observable laws of Physics, Matter in this Universe can not be created or destroyed, you can only change its state, i.e. solid to liquid, to gas... to energy... There is no explanation for how an entire reality full of Matter can be created out of nothing... Scientists know this... idiots that are atheists and simply would rather NOT believe that their lives and actions they take within their lifespan are being witnessed by an Omnipotent God do not WANT to believe... but Your belief in God does not change whether or not he exists you will be judged.

To slightly expand (and this could be a valid argument for the EU - comission as well), Germany is closer to Russia than some other member states, it has a history of being a reliable partner that purchases large volumes of gas (largest customer in EU IIRC), therefore it's given the best deal.

Rather than cheering the potential half - a-loaf compromise from the Department of Environmental Conservation on hydrofracking, the anti-frackers charge it's a scheme to «open the door» to allowing gas extraction in other parts of the state.

Sampson said that while gas prices are low and New York's proposed regulations would make drilling most costly than in other states, there would still be a market for gas produced in the state.

But the administration has now taken a similar tack on a number of other controversial projects, staying silent rather than approving or blocking them, including a major proposed propane storage project in the Finger Lakes, the construction of new liquefied natural gas storage areas across the state and a crude - oil heating facility at the Port of Albany.

«But we really need our neighboring states to undertake similar policies because these pipelines are crossing state lines and are bringing gas to other states other than New York state, even though they pass across it.»

A report in Nature stated that in some cases the escape of methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, «could effectively offset the environmental edge that natural gas is said to enjoy over other fossil fuels.»

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought - wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.

According to researchers at Oregon State University, having one fewer child reduces a U.S. family's greenhouse gas impact 20 times more than driving a Toyota Prius, using Energy Star appliances and other lifestyle choices combined.

That may seem a mere blink of an eye, but it is far longer than other efforts with the technique and shows for the first time that it is possible to hold the gas in a steady state — the researchers stopped only when their machine ran out of juice.

The Chinese are also attempting to mimic the U.S. in allowing companies other than the state - owned oil giants to begin exploring for shale gas, legally designating the resource as one that can be independently mined.

From his ethane research and other international studies, he learned that there appears to be a much higher ethane source in the earth's Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern and a higher leak rate in the central United States than in more eastern oil and gas fields, and that some oil and gas fields in the central United States leak at much higher rates than others.

Most wells are around the Great Lakes and in areas where oil and gas is produced: along the Appalachian crest and the Gulf Coast, in California and in Texas, which has more wells for hazardous industrial waste and oil and gas waste than any other state.

(C) Cost - effective energy efficiency programs for end - use consumers of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, or propane, including, where appropriate, programs or mechanisms administered by local governments and entities other than the State.

April 17, 2018 • North Carolina isn't rich in coal, natural gas or oil, but it has more hogs than nearly any other state.

This officially makes it larger than any other VW offered here in the states (VW is really hoping to impress all of us size - obsessed, gas guzzling Americans, huh?)

Some states guzzle down more gas than others.

On the other side, while there will undoubtedly be high costs to any serious attempt at mitigation, this would also require something like a global agreement (covering at least the rich world, India and China, and probably other states with large and currently poor populations) which would inevitably have to bring in issues other than greenhouse gas emissions — such as those you mention — if only because these states will say, reasonably enough, that they can not bring their populations on board without serious help in those other areas.

While President Obama and more than 100 other heads of state are expected to participate in the United Nations Climate Summit today, President Xi Jinping of China, the country making by far the biggest contribution to the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases, will not appear.

One opportunity was unmentioned in Kerry's speech and this post: the chance for the United States to help India develop its shale gas, an energy source that India is keen on tapping and that is cleaner than other fossil fuel choices.

A remarkable ability to unlock new resources cost - effectively pushes combined United States oil and gas output to a level 50 % higher than any other country has ever managed; already a net exporter of gas, the US becomes a net exporter of oil in the late 2020s.

Meanwhile, electricity, natural gas, and petroleum in the form of gasoline are all more expensive in California than in other states, [39] and anything that increases the cost of basic needs like energy and food is regressive.

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report stated a clear expert consensus that: «It is extremely likely [defined as 95 - 100 % certainty] that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic [human - caused] increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.»

Here, in the United States, we need, for several reasons, base load power plants other than natural gas, and with the slow demise of nuclear, coal is the only alternative.

Because natural gas is a considerably more expensive fuel than coal, it takes a substantial CO2 cost to overcome this fuel cost disadvantage — about $ 30 / ton, on current fuel price expectations in the U.S.. On the other hand, consider pending investments to add new generating capacity in the United States over the next few decades.

None of the funds made available to the Environmental Protection Agency by this division or any other Act may be expended for purposes of enforcing or promulgating any regulation (other than with respect to section 202 of the Clean Air Act) or order, taking action relating to, or denying approval of state implementation plans or permits because of the emissions of greenhouse gases due to concerns regarding possible climate change.

«(i) United States greenhouse gas emissions in 2005 were other than 7,206 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent;

-- The term «Climate Registry» means the greenhouse gas emissions registry jointly established and managed by more than 40 States and Indian tribes in 2007 to collect high - quality greenhouse gas emission data from facilities, corporations, and other organizations to support various greenhouse gas emission reporting and reduction policies for the member States and Indian tribes.

This report found that direct measurements of methane emissions from 190 onshore natural gas sites in the United States indicate that methane emissions from completed wells are are lower than commonly thought although the report also acknowledged that emissions from pneumatic controllers and other equipment associated with natural gas production facilities were higher than previously estimated.

If the radiation is anything other than isotropic black body radiation at the temperature of the gas, the steady - state population of the excited states can not be thermal.

The 35 - megawatt landfill - gas power plant planned by Puget Sound Energy and slated to draw methane from Seattle's landfill will join more than 100 other such power plants in operation in the United States.

Had these allowances sold at the minimum auction price, they would have brought in more than $ 990 million in total revenue — $ 550 million of which was due to be delivered to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to support high - speed rail and other state projects.

New coal and onshore gas extraction would attract state royalties, but based on historical figures (see Point 7 above) the amounts are likely to be less than one might expect, partidularly since new extraction projects tend to receive more in subsidies and other state government assistance than established projects.

Although there are many countries other than the United States that have frequently failed to respond to what justice would require of them to reduce the threat of climate change, the United States, perhaps more than any other country, has gained a reputation in the international community for its consistent unwillingness to commit to serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions during the over two decades that world has been seeking a global agreement on how to respond to climate change.

(The United States has been essentially more successful than any other country in the world in cutting growth in CO2 emissions, pretty much entirely because of a shift to natural gas.)

«In Canada and in the United States and, indeed, in many industrialized countries, about 85 per cent of the greenhouse gas we release, other than water vapour, is carbon dioxide.

If total oil supply based on these numbers are compared, the United States actually produces more oil than these other countries because the United States produces far more oil from natural gas and other liquids (e.g. ethanol) and refinery gain than do the other countries.

Among the country's top 15 states in overall energy production, Arkansas had a more than 400 percent increase in natural gas output from 2005 through 2015 — thanks to safe hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in shale and other tight - rock formations.

In Ohio, where Sierra Club and other anti-nuclear groups chose coal over nuclear in the 1970s, nuclear plants pay over ten times more in taxes per unit of energy than oil and gas producers, and are excluded from the state's renewable portfolio standard.

E.g., research assumes greenhouse gas emissions cause warming without explicitly stating humans are the cause»... carbon sequestration in soil is important for mitigating global climate change» (4a) No position Does not address or mention the cause of global warming (4b) Uncertain Expresses position that human's role on recent global warming is uncertain / undefined «While the extent of human - induced global warming is inconclusive...» (5) Implicit rejection Implies humans have had a minimal impact on global warming without saying so explicitly E.g., proposing a natural mechanism is the main cause of global warming»... anywhere from a major portion to all of the warming of the 20th century could plausibly result from natural causes according to these results» (6) Explicit rejection without quantification Explicitly minimizes or rejects that humans are causing global warming»... the global temperature record provides little support for the catastrophic view of the greenhouse effect» (7) Explicit rejection with quantification Explicitly states that humans are causing less than half of global warming «The human contribution to the CO2 content in the atmosphere and the increase in temperature is negligible in comparison with other sources of carbon dioxide emission»»

Not only is the atmospheric impact of the current leak considerable (in three months the well had already released «more greenhouse gases than any other facility in California,» and already «more than doubled the methane emissions of the entire Los Angeles Basin and surpassed what is released by all industrial activity in the state.»)

«A study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than some of the other environmentally sensitive practices people might employ their entire lives — things like driving a high mileage car, recycling, or using energy - efficient appliances and light bulbs.»

Since 2006, carbon - dioxide emissions have fallen more in the United States than in any other country, both because of the switch from coal to gas and because of increased energy efficiency driven by both regulation and market forces.

For example, in the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Accord, the United States and more than 100 other countries agreed to consider action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions «so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius.»

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper thinks the state's legislation will become a model for other states, according to the Denver Post, because it goes further than other states with disclosure laws by requiring all chemicals to be named (or in cases where the oil and gas commission is convinced a specific chemical should be kept a trade secret, then the chemical family needs to be named), as well as the concentrations in which they are used.

It's easy to tick off the ways in which California is a leader in clean energy: It harvests more solar energy than any other state, has a program to curb greenhouse gas emissions from the vehicles on its famously long highways, and launched its own cap - and - trade system this year.

The graph at the right shows that this statement is false; note how greenhouse gas emissions intensity has greatly declined in SA, far more than in any other state, in the period when most of our wind farms were built.