Sentences with phrase «much oil pollution»

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Using data of crude oil transported out of North Dakota in 2014, Muller says the team found «that air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude oil by rail are much larger than spill and accident costs.»

But if the government and citizens rely on them to know how much pollution is caused by offshore oil and gas production, our drilling policy is based on fundamentally inaccurate data.»

Oil and gas companies in New Mexico produce as much climate pollution as approximately 12 coal - fired power plants.

The study, by researchers at the University of Texas and URS, a consulting firm — with the cooperation of (and some funding from) the oil and gas industry and Environmental Defense Fund (more on that below)-- shows that much of the pollution problem lies in a small subset of poorly operating systems or faulty processes — in this case valves run pneumatically using the pressure of extracted gas and operations that clear liquids from older wells.

Many of these small internal combustion engines used for yardwork can release as much as 30 % of the fuel / oil mixture as unburned pollutants into the atmosphere due to incomplete combustion, which not only wastes fuel and money, but also contributes to air pollution.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

The oil and gas industry is the nation's largest industrial source of methane, a much more potent climate - warming pollutant than carbon dioxide pound - for - pound, and the oil and gas sector is the second largest industrial contributor to overall climate pollution.

These higher costs eventually transfer to other products that most of us consider essential: food because it uses much oil in growing and transport; electricity because it is associated with pollution controls; and metals for basic manufacturing, because they also use oil in extraction and transport.

We push the oil and gas industry to limit methane pollution, which traps more than 80 times as much heat on our planet as carbon dioxide.

Burning a gallon of gas from tar sands releases as much as 37 percent more carbon pollution than burning a gallon of gas from conventional oil.

We analyzed how much carbon tar sands oil produces and assessed the climate impact of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding that building it would unleash a massive expansion of tar sands development and cause a dramatic increase in carbon pollution.

Well, carbon pollution caused by burning fossil fuels is a key cause of the climate crisis — and without action, they'll be free to drill, extract, frack, refine, transport, and burn oil as much as they want.

Early last week, the fire had already cost Can $ 1 billion in lost oil production and released nearly one - tenth as much climate pollution as all of Canada emits in a year.

They're also dirtier: producing a gallon of gasoline from unconventional oil can generate over twice as much pollution as it would have if produced from conventional sources.

Bitumen production releases twice as much air pollution as conventional oil, and Alberta's emissions regulations are less stringent then the international standards.

I remember hearing anecdotally that here in NY NYSERDA had studied particulate emissions from outdoor woodboilers and concluded that one OWB could emit as much particulate pollution as something like 20,000 fuel oil boilers.

As attorney general for a state that is one the nation's biggest oil, natural gas and grain producers, Pruitt has been at the forefront of lawsuits challenging EPA regulations on carbon emissions and water pollution, and he is expected to lead the effort to erase much of President Barack Obama's environmental agenda.

Because the widespread burning of rainforest land in Indonesia — in order to plant more palm oil plantations — is creating so much smoke and trans - boundary haze pollution that it's affecting neighboring nations, not to mention devastating its own country.

The Exxon Valdez oil spill has apparently not left much of a legacy other than the pollution that remains in the area, even as we mark 22 years since the accident, but there's a 10 - year - old girl from the Sliammon First Nation in British Columbia who

In 2014, after concerted community pressure, the city of Richmond approved an updated version of Chevron's refinery expansion project, which included much more pollution control than originally proposed and 90 million dollars for community benefits, which may be largest community benefits package for permitting an oil refinery project in the United States.