Sentences with phrase «increase national gas»
In September 2009, the Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule to increase national gas - mileage standards for cars, trucks and SUVs by about 5 percent per year.
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The National Retail Federation announced today it expects sales in November and December (excluding autos, gas and restaurant sales) to increase a solid 3.7 percent to $ 630.5 billion — significantly higher than the 10 - year average of 2.5 percent.
NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).
NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin is among the Republicans from outside California who have contributed to the campaign to repeal the state's gas - tax increase, showing the effort has national interest from GOP leaders who see it as a way to boost their party's chances in the Golden State for this year's election.
The most recent data from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) finds that a cost - shift does not occur until distributed solar penetration reaches 10 % of electricity sales, and even then that the impact is minimal compared to other drivers of rate increases, like new gas plants or transmission lines.
Systematic national programs of these sorts would lead to a steady and substantial decline in the emission of greenhouse gases and greatly increase our ability to lead the family of nations into international agreements on the environment.
The state Public Service Commission approved National Grid's new rate plan that will phase in roughly $ 16 in monthly increases for gas and electric customers over a three - year period.
National Grid today asked state regulators to increase its delivery rates by $ 326 million a year for electricity and $ 81 million for natural gas.
National Fuel Gas CEO Ronald J. Tanski, stung by the rejection of a major pipeline expansion project and a steep reduction in the size of a utility rate increase request over the past month, told analysts that the Amherst - based energy company is «getting lousy regulatory treatment in New York State.»
[108][109] The 100 % state - owned filling station company of Ghana, Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) is the number 1 petroleum and gas filling station of Ghana and the 100 % state - owned state oil company Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) administrates hydrocarbon exploration and production of Ghana's entire petroleum and natural gas reserves and Ghana aims to further increase output of oil to 2.2 million barrels (350,000 m3) per day and gas to 34,000,000 cubic metres (1.2 × 109 cu ft) per day.
In April 2016, National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation (NFG) requested that the New York State Public Service Commission approve an increase in its gas deliery ratGas Distribution Corporation (NFG) requested that the New York State Public Service Commission approve an increase in its gas deliery ratgas deliery rates.
At 2 p.m., the PSC holds a cpublic comment for the proposed gas delivery rate increase of National Grid, St. Francis College, Founders Hall Auditorium, 182 Remsen St., Brooklyn.
Also at 7 p.m., the PSC holds a public comment for the proposed gas delivery rate increase of National Grid, St. Francis College, Founders Hall Auditorium, 182 Remsen St., Brooklyn.
At 7 p.m., the PSC holds a public comment period for the proposed gas delivery rate increase of National Grid, CUNY School of Law, 2 Court Square, 23 - 21 44th Drive, Queens.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has increased the supply of gas to the power sector between January 2017 to January 2018 by 88.89 %.
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru has advocated for increased and sustained synergy between Nigerian universities and the oil and gas industry to harness the noticeable gains in the implementation of the Nigerian Content agenda in the Petroleum Sector.
He averred that the solid minerals sector is acknowledged as a viable alternative to oil and gas for foreign exchange earnings, adding that the National Bureau of Statistics has made us to understand that the contribution of Solid Minerals to the IGR which stood at 1 % in 2014 has the potential of increasing to 10 % by 2020.
«If the world does not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, continued heating could increase the vulnerability of plants, wildlife, physical features, and cultural resources in the globally unique US national parks.»
The President's program will accelerate increases in fuel economy and impose the first - ever national greenhouse gas emission standards on cars and trucks
«In recent years, we've seen an increase in the use of seismic surveys for oil and gas exploration and research, and for establishing national resource claims on ever - larger geographic scales.
«The trends in Africa of hot summers getting hotter and rainy seasons drying out are linked with factors that include increasing greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere,» said Ming Cai, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funded the research.
Todd Schaef, a geochemist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, says the team's solution brings the gas to a «supercritical state,» increasing the temperature and pressure before injecting it into basalt rock.
«The atmospheric and oceanic CO2 increase is being driven by the burning of fossil fuels,» says Pieter Tans, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory, who leads the U.S. government effort to monitor global greenhouse gas levels.
«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.
They found that, broadly speaking, higher national investment in these environmentally - friendly incentive schemes over a five - year period correlated with increased levels of bird biodiversity and lower rates of gas emissions from farming.
Because of the these attributes, this seemingly modest, very local activity support national goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve health through prevention, and increase access to opportunity.
Oct 5, 2017 — On October 8, Honda is joining the nation in celebrating National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day (www.hydrogenfuelcellday.org) to raise awareness of fuel cell and hydrogen technologies that can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while increasing the nation's energy security.
«Not a single paper in a large sample of peer - reviewed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 refuted the consensus position, summarized by the National Academy of Sciences, that «most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations.
«This expedition was organized on a short notice by the Russian Fund of Fundamental Research and the U.S. National Science Foundation following the discovery of a dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas from the seabed in the eastern part of the Arctic», said Professor Igor Semiletov, the head of the expedition.
In 2006, the European Union (EU), which consists of 27 members, committed to reducing its global warming emissions by at least 20 percent of 1990 levels by 2020, to consuming 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, and to reducing its primary energy use by 20 percent from projected levels through increased energy efficiency.1 The EU has also committed to spending $ 375 billion a year to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 compared to 1990 levels.2 The EU is meeting these goals through binding national commitments which vary depending on the unique situation of a given country but which average out to the overall targets.
The national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted March 27 - April 9 among 2,541 adults, finds pockets of partisan agreement over expanding solar and wind power, though wide political divides remain over increasing fossil fuels through such methods as coal mining, hydraulic fracturing and offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, a pattern consistent with a 2016 Pew Research Center survey.
This technical document presents the latest estimates of the emissions gap in 2020 and provides plentiful information, including about current (2010) and projected (2020) levels of global greenhouse gas emissions, both in the absence of additional policies and consistent with national pledge implementation; the implications of starting decided emission reductions now or in the coming decades; agricultural development policies that can help increase yields, reduce fertilizer usage and bring about other benefits, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; and, international cooperative initiatives that, while potentially overlapping with pledges, can complement them and help bridge the emissions gap.
The EU's unilateral climate policy is absurd: first consumers are forced to pay ever increasing subsidies for costly wind and solar energy; secondly they are asked to subsidise nuclear energy too; then, thirdly, they are forced to pay increasingly uneconomic coal and gas plants to back up power needed by intermittent wind and solar energy; fourthly, consumers are additionally hit by multi-billion subsidies that become necessary to upgrade the national grids; fifthly, the cost of power is made even more expensive by adding a unilateral Emissions Trading Scheme.
``... the IPCC has clearly indicated that most of the global warming observed over the past 50 years was likely induced by the increase in concentrations of greenhouse gases...» — China National Development and Reform Commission, «National Climate Change Program,» June 4, 2007
Even the week before the latest crises, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told the National Press Club that increasing gas supply is «vital» for Australia's energy future.
The new act will see national parks and groundwater protection zones at risk from fracking as the government backtracked on amendments agreed only weeks ago to increase the safety of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas.
In 2014, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that the increased use of natural gas combined cycles in power generation has led to 40 percent less nitrogen oxide emissions and 44 percent less sulfur oxides emissions since 1997.
The energy trends envisioned in the New Policies Scenario imply that national commitments to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions, while expected to have some impact, are collectively inadequate to meet the Copenhagen Accord's overall goal of holding the global temperature increase to below 2 °C.
With the dramatic increase in oil prices earlier this year translating into higher prices at the gas pump in the United States, concerns over U.S. dependence on foreign oil are once again part of the national discussion on energy security.
While this project will threaten our groundwater, waterways, and general health, increase gas prices and world dependency on oil, and further forestall a necessary shift to a green economy (Read more: TransCanada: «Keystone XL National Security Risk»), President Obama is expediting pipeline construction and has remained mute on global warming.
This 5 - minute video by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shows the many lines of evidence that human activities are causing greenhouse gases to increase.
While there have been negotiations under way on the new agreement, there has also been an attempt to increase national commitments on greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions reductions in the short - term because mainstream science is telling nations that much greater reductions in emissions are necessary in the next few years to maintain any hope of keeping warming below 20 C, a warming limit that all nations have agreed should not be exceeded to give some hope of preventing catastrophic warming.
«The Australian National University announced the discovery on Sunday, claiming evidence shows human - caused greenhouse gas emission during the past 45 years has increased the rate of temperature rise to 1.7 degree Celsius per century, «dwarfing the natural background rate,» according to Will Steffen, a climate change expert and ANU professor.»
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found to their surprise that despite the increased human emissions of greenhouse gases, between 2002 and 2014, plants were somehow able to absorb more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than in previous decades.
«We estimate that by actively increasing farm yields, the UK can reduce the amount of land that is a source of greenhouse gases, increase the «sink», and sequester enough carbon to hit national emission reduction targets for the agriculture industry by 2050.»
Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s, the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gasoline have greatly increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially CO2, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
An even greater risk, perhaps, is that the United States shows no sign of adopting the kind of national policy to cut greenhouse gases that would increase demand for natural gas in the energy marketplace, thereby enhancing its value.
By playing up jingoistic fears of «energy dependence,» King Corn has convinced the Congress that ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, is a national security imperative, despite the fact that it increases gas prices, it's awful for the environment, it contributes to asthma, and it makes food costlier.
There also was a decline in natural gas use and increases in solar, hydro and geothermal power according to the most recent energy flow charts released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.