Sentences with phrase «of gallons of»

Twenty - six days after the BP oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent collapse, which has resulted in the leakage of millions of gallons of oil into the ocean and an untold amount of environmental damage, the latest

The investigation found that a number of companies injected millions of gallons of diesel into the ground.

An advanced containment and skimming plan to corral and clean up the surface spill would have been preferable in my mind than blasting the source with hundreds of thousands of gallons of a toxic chemical untested on this scale, and having it enter every conceivable strata of the food chain.

Despite spilling tens, if not hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil and chemicals into an Arkansas neighborhood, thanks to a loophole in a law from 1980, ExxonMobil will not be paying into a federal oil spill cleanup fund because the oil they spilled is not the right type of oil.

With thousands of gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico everyday, this undeniable

Why has nobody sued or regulated oil refineries for putting millions of gallons of the true cancer causer, BENZENE, into the air?

Caroma expects that their system will save the city millions of gallons of water each year just by replacing common urinals with their H2Zero waterless urinals.

Its construction would require a drilling method called Hydraulic Directional Drilling, which uses millions of gallons of bentonite slick water, typically laced with diesel fuel, to drill longitudinally under rivers and other structures.

The entire country of China has banned plastic bags, thereby saving China hundreds of thousands of gallons of fossil fuel and preventing thousands of tons of global warming gas from entering the atmosphere.

October 13, 2015 This past spring, media outlets lit up with stories about Nestlé pumping of millions of gallons of water out of southern California's San Bernardino National Forest for bottling.

«Billions of gallons of toxic fluids» will «contaminate» groundwater and drinking water «for generations.»

These activities help secure an abundant and reliable energy supply, but at the expense of tens of billions of gallons of freshwater consumption per year.

Back in 2011, the giant Chevron corporation was found guilty of illegally dumping billions of gallons of oil waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest in what has been described as the Amazon's «Chernobyl» and the worst case of oil pollution on the planet.

The pipelines and the capturing plants using thousands of gallons of toxic and highly flammable amines for capturing CO2 would be easy targets for terrorists to cause massive releases of CO2 causing a Lake Nyos like event or worse with a plant blowing up.

Other harms are certainties, like the rendering of millions of gallons of potentially potable water undrinkable by toxifying the water and injecting it into the ground.

Fracking is known to use millions of gallons of toxic and radioactive wastewater, which has polluted drinking water.

How many more earthquakes might occur because we shoot billions of gallons of liquid into the earth?

I mean here I was, having 4 - wheeled for a few hours to reach this special campsite, easily using a couple of gallons of fuel, and releasing stored carbon - based energy as CO2 as well as particulate, matter pondering just how much science has devolved in just my lifetime!

Mr. Reiss and Mr. Goldstein decry the six Hudson River power plants with antiquated cooling systems that withdraw tens of billions of gallons of water directly from the river every day, thereby destroying billions of fish, fish eggs and larvae each year.

The Lakes can not ecologically tolerate industrial turbines with hundreds of gallons of oil and lubricants, toxic rare earth elements, and non-recyclable carbon fibre blades.

With all the promotion of NG, we're only now beginning to hear about the dark downside of hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» — using millions of gallons of water mixed with undisclosed chemicals and sand to release natural gas.

On a global scale, the biofuels frenzy is diverting millions of acres of farmland from food crops, converting millions of acres of rainforest and other wildlife habitat into farmland, and employing billions of gallons of water, to produce corn, jatropha, palm oil and other crops for use in producing politically correct biodiesel and other biofuels.

Developed more than 60 years ago, fracking involves pumping millions of gallons of chemically treated water into deep shale formations at pressures of 9000 pounds per square inch or more.

The predominant approach is hydraulic fracturing («fracking») of deep shale formations via injection of millions of gallons of water, sand and toxic chemicals under pressure, thus liberating methane [155], [160].

Daniel has led litigation encompassing over twenty years and 250 cases, eliminating millions of gallons of raw sewage and toxic pollutants from neighborhoods, creeks, rivers and bays.

A single acre filters millions of gallons of ocean water every day, creates homes for hundreds of wild marine and bird species and absorbs the overabundance of nitrogen and carbon (with kelp sequestering 5x more carbon than land based - plants) that are killing billions of organisms.

A California company hopes to store solar power by focusing thousands of mirrors on millions of gallons of liquefied salt.

Washington is already producing such low - carbon biofuels, but has the potential to produce significantly more: used cooking oil, animal fat, canola, and cellulosic sources such as hybrid poplar trees could collectively generate hundreds of millions of gallons of clean fuels every year.

Contrast that to Transocean's activities in North America, where the company owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in 2010, killing 11 men and causing millions of gallons of oil to leak into the Gulf of Mexico.

Fracking, in which millions of gallons of chemically treated water and sand are forced underground to break shale rock and free trapped gas, has lowered energy prices, created jobs, and enhanced national security, according to a task force formed by President Barack Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

The process can use millions of gallons of water per extraction well and is known to leak chemicals into surrounding aquifers.

The savings in water are obvious, but we are apt to forget the electricity that it takes to pump the hundreds of gallons of water yearly that our household will now conserve.

Thanks to our Green City, Clean Waters program, thousands of green tools like rain gardens and stormwater tree planters across the city soak up tens of millions of gallons of stormwater runoff each time we have a substantial storm.

Every second, the Congo sends millions of gallons of freshwater deep into the Atlantic, influencing marine plants and wildlife.

In Oregon, biomass waste from urban, agricultural, and forestry sources could generate hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel every year, while electricity could cleanly and affordably power increasing numbers of new advanced vehicles.

The proposal to allow horizontal hydraulic fracturing, a method of drilling for natural gas involving the injection of millions of gallons of chemically laced water, has caused a furor around the state.

We report on contamination from the millions of gallons of toxic wastewater generated each day by tar sands mines.

Millions of gallons of pressurized water, sand, and chemicals are then used to create fissures in the rock and release oil, which is pumped out.

The blend wall still looms, and so does EPA's insistence on requiring millions of gallons of phantom cellulosic biofuels.

A congressional investigation disclosed that companies across the country have illegally injected millions of gallons of diesel fuel underground without obtaining Safe Drinking Water Act permits.

Back in August the Animas River in southwestern Colorado turned orange for miles after millions of gallons of mine waste erupted from an inactive gold mine.

So you would have to bring millions of gallons of water in by tanker, and employ thousands of people to wash the panels.

To better understand the impacts of global freight movement, consider that the freight industry transports trillions of dollars» worth of goods every year to every corner of the globe and back, largely by burning millions of gallons of diesel fuel, which emits greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

The Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank has spilled millions of gallons of oil into the ecologically rich waters in the Gulf of Mexico and continues to gush 210,000 gallons of oil into the sea every day.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water, sand and undisclosed chemicals at high pressure into horizontal wells to crack...

The 600 - plus - page report that resulted looks at a variety of ways fracking could have an effect on local drinking water: withdrawing millions of gallons of water needed to frack a well, improperly mixing chemicals with the water at the well, injecting that fracking fluid into the ground at high pressure to fracture rock as much as two miles beneath the surface, handling the contaminated water then produced by the well and finally improperly storing or disposing of that water.

Would be a great point if it wasn't for TEPCO dumping millions of gallons of radioactive waste into the ocean everyday.

In addition to generating verified carbon offset credits, these practices also resulted in reduced energy consumption and the reduced use of millions of gallons of water, a critical resource in both regions.

The millions — if not billions — of gallons of cellulosic ethanol that motorists would be enjoying if the Bush administration's RFS targets had come true is a perfect example.

Tennessee has the potential to produce billions of gallons of cellulosic ethanol by using 4.5 million acres of land identified by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as ideal for energy crop cultivation.