Sentences with phrase «large oil and natural gas industry»

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The push by the U.S. energy industry into hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling unleashed an energy boom, making the United States the world's biggest producer of natural gas and just recently the second - largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia.

New Yorkers from Buffalo to Long Island decided that allowing the oil and gas industries the rights to large scale mining of natural gas reserves was simply too much of a public health and environmental threat.

Horizons HEE will invest primarily in a portfolio of equity and equity related securities of Canadian companies that are primarily involved in the crude oil and natural gas industry and that, as at the Constituent Reset Date, are amongst the largest and most liquid issuers on the TSX in their sector.

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

This is important, market - driven progress on climate, which API and its member companies consider an important issue for constructive engagement — engagement that also is seen in approximately $ 90 billion in oil and natural gas industry investments in zero - and low - emissions technologies since 2000, nearly as much as the federal government and more than twice that of the next largest industry sector.

Today, our nation's carbon emissions are near 20 - year lows, thanks in large part to the continued commitment and substantial financial investment in environmental protection technology of the oil and natural gas industry.

Oil and natural gas production and processing accounts for nearly 40 % of all U.S. methane emissions, making the industry the nation's single largest methane source.

The Koch Brothers» supposed «free market» political activities often line up with the financial interests of Koch Industries, the 2nd largest privately held corporation in the United States and a major fossil fuel conglomerate (invested in coal, oil, and natural gas among many other sectors).

In just a few years we've gone from a scenario of energy scarcity to energy abundance — thanks in large part to the innovations and investments of America's oil and natural gas industry.

States with large and developed natural gas and oil industries generally saw their average electric bill drop.

As of November 2011, a large majority of Americans (70 %) also opposed federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry (coal, oil, and natural gas), including majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents:

Oil, natural gas, petroleum products and related industries are the largest sector of the local economy.