Sentences with phrase «oil pollution resulted»

Damage is alleged to have been caused to the vessel and oil pollution resulted leading to significant clean - up operations.

Not exact matches

The team's results suggest that further research on the air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions costs of transporting crude oil and other petroleum products is necessary.

However, three or four years later the stock collapsed completely, probably as a result of the delayed damage caused by very low levels of oil pollution.

But a specially type of infrared photography has created a breakthrough in efforts to cut pollution from the expanding oil and gas industry, resulting in reduced greenhouse gas emissions, less local air pollution and less wasted natural gas.

In Session 3, entitled «Consume Less Create More,» the steps in the life cycle of ballpoint pens is broken out from production to disposal, or as some say from womb to tomb: the oil drilling for the plastic, the mining for the metal, the chemicals for the ink, the factories for production, the trucks for transport to market and ultimately to the landfill and the resulting air, ground, and water pollution that accompanies each step.

The predictable (and predicted) result was that both vehicle CO2 pollution and vehicle oil use grew dramatically until skyrocketing oil prices of 2008 shocked American drivers into a revolt, unfortunately nearly killing the US auto industry.

If just a fraction of the oil, gas and coal from these major climate disrupters was developed, the resulting carbon pollution would cancel out our country's greatest accomplishments in the fight against climate disruption — efforts like the Obama administrations new fuel economy standards.

This report detailed organizations including oil companies and tech giants, entertainment companies and others that are holding themselves accountable for the carbon pollution released into the environment as a result of daily operations.

We've launched the SkyTruth Spill Tracker, a map - based tool to allow citizens on the ground in Texas, Florida and the Caribbean to quickly report oil and hazardous waste spills and other pollution incidents as a result of the storms.

Considering the risks inherent in nuclear power, the chronic political instability gripping some key oil - producing regions, and the climate volatility and pollution - related disease resulting from continued fossil fuel use, Japan's current energy economy is far from secure.

The rampant air and water pollution resulting from fossil fuel use has garnered considerable attention in recent years, with landmark studies on the human health effects and other costs of coal burning, and alarming accounts of declining air quality in gas - and - oil - drilling boomtowns.

From bloody wars and huge disasters like the Exxon Valdez and other vast pollutions like the Gulf oil spill, Chernobyl and Fukushima and the resulting cancers and ruined lives (human and other species) to other hideous environmental destruction such as mountaintop removal to climate change to the Culture Of Fear that pervades almost every aspect of our lives today because of all of these.

Penguin populations have been declining and shifting globally as a result of oil pollution, overfishing, guano mining -LRB-!)

If the scientists are wrong, and there is no AGW, but we act as if they are right and mitigate it, the result will be that mitigation up to 3/4 reduction in GHGs will save us money and strengthen our economy, and solve other environmental, as well as non-environmental, problems (local pollution, acid rain, wars for oil, etc).

If just a fraction of the oil, gas and coal from these major climate disrupters was developed, the resulting carbon pollution would cancel out our country's greatest accomplishments in the fight against climate disruption — efforts like the Obama administrations new fuel economy standards (as demonstrated in the chart at the top of this column).

Represented a large independent oil and gas company in a multi-defendant case involving allegations of aquifer pollution allegedly resulting from oil and gas activities.