Sentences with phrase «on offshore oil drilling»

The modern city was built on offshore oil drilling and film production.

Next week the House Natural Resources Committee will hold the first in a series of scheduled hearings on offshore oil drilling, the policies on which Salazar has said he intends to revamp in consultation with Congress.

Congressional Democrats bowed to political pressure yesterday and agreed to let the ban on offshore oil drilling expire, a decision that would allow exploration just three miles off the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines unless the next president reinstates an executive branch order that prohibits drilling.

In response to this announcement, the Surfrider Foundation has release the following statement: «The Surfrider Foundation considers anything short of a complete reinstatement of the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling a loss.

«The Surfrider Foundation considers anything short of a complete reinstatement of the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling a loss.

Find more information on the Surfrider Foundation's position on offshore oil drilling, and Not The Answer Campaign, visit www.nottheanswer.org.

That lack of political punch is crystal clear now, as the Obama administration, perhaps hoping to help embattled Democrats at the polls next month, has ended its moratorium on offshore oil drilling for companies that, as the news release headline puts it, clear a «higher bar for safety, environmental protection.»

Here are a few highlights from Environmental Journalism Today: House Democrats to Let Ban on Drilling Expire: «Congressional Democrats bowed to political pressure yesterday and agreed to let the ban on offshore oil drilling expire, a decision that would allow exploration just three miles off the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines unless the next president reinstates an executive branch order that prohibits drilling.

Rather than wholeheartedly support the kind of energy policy, civic infrastructure and lifestyle changes that will allow the United States to prosper in a post-carbon, green economy — and build a clean energy independence — the focus is on populist false promises that developing oil shale or lifting bans on offshore oil drilling will reduce short term energy costs.

Amendment 9 combines a proposed ban on offshore oil drilling with a proposed ban on vaping in the workplace.

(Other examples include Obama's softening on rigid troop withdrawal deadlines and shifts in his positions on offshore oil drilling and NAFTA.)

Not exact matches

On Friday, Trump is expected to sign an order to review areas available for offshore oil and gas exploration, as well as rules governing offshore drilling.

Additionally, it comes at a time when oil prices are on the rise, but stuck in a range that makes multibillion - dollar projects in new offshore areas unattractive for many drillers.

After a period of prolonged low oil prices, many offshore drillers are focusing on tying new wells in the Gulf of Mexico to existing infrastructure, rather than investing billions in new offshore platforms, he said.

Oil service companies are getting hit because they are focusing their efforts on offshore drilling, an industry struggling due to low oil prices that can not justify conducting more typically lucrative deep - water drilling projecOil service companies are getting hit because they are focusing their efforts on offshore drilling, an industry struggling due to low oil prices that can not justify conducting more typically lucrative deep - water drilling projecoil prices that can not justify conducting more typically lucrative deep - water drilling projects.

In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

To run DOI's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, one of two agencies that regulates offshore drilling, Zinke chose Scott Angelle, a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission who served on the board of directors of (and was paid $ 989,238 by) oil pipeline operator Sunoco Logistics.

From a very wide, macro view, offshore drilling represents a great place to start re-entering the energy trade because offshore profitability is almost entirely based on crude oil pricing (despite yielding plenty of natural gas).

When the BP oil spill was at its worst and Crist was (opportunistically as ever) backing restrictions on offshore drilling, Rubio hung tough.

Protest the lack of a vote on offshore drilling for oil and gas.

Release of the master plan comes as the federal government, even as it forges ahead on offshore wind leases, also has released plans to open nearly the entire U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling.

With the release of its master plan for offshore wind energy, New York State is doubling down on its commitment to renewable energy at a time when the Trump administration is moving to allow coastal drilling for oil and gas.

He has scheduled some high prolife events focusing on national issues in recent days, including an event with Al Gore to ask that New York be excluded from the Trump administration's expanded offshore oil and gas drilling program.

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.»

There is only one official source of data on pollution caused by offshore drilling in U.S. waters: the National Response Center, an online reporting system for oil and chemical spills managed by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Earlier this year, the Obama administration placed a three - year moratorium on federal coal leasing, and closed the entire East Coast and parts of the Arctic Ocean to offshore oil drilling.

So - called roadless oil extraction, in which oil companies use offshore exploration and production methods and leave less of an imprint on the area being drilled, is a viable alternative, argue Swing and others associated with Scientists Concerned for Yasuni, a network of independent researchers that first came together in 2004 to stop a proposed road project inside the park.

Trump's administration has already reversed Obama - era bans on offshore drilling in certain parts of the Arctic, a turn that could intensify competition for resources in the region with major oil producer Russia.

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SYNOPSIS: A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

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Oil & gas contract drillers, and offshore support service firms, are also well represented on this year's list.

National Oilwell Varco provides equipment and services to oil and gas drillers both on land and offshore.

In order to drill in offshore federal waters, companies bid on leases that grant them the rights to oil and gas production.

Federal energy analysts have said offshore drilling would have no impact on oil production or prices before 2030.

Senator Barack Obama commented on the drilling idea on Tuesday, saying: «Much like his gas - tax gimmick that would leave consumers with pennies in savings, opening our coastlines to offshore drilling would take at least a decade to produce any oil at all, and the effect on gasoline prices would be negligible at best since America only has 3 percent of the world's oil.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

He's also implying that he'll stick with his (ill - timed) support for expanded offshore drilling — although obviously with an aggressive clampdown on the oil industry and the agencies that, in theory at least, were supposed to protect workers and the environment.

I also discuss restoring bison, provisions in the farm bill that could benefit the environment, tightening control of offshore oil drilling and pressing forward — for a host of reasons — on United States ratification of the Law of the Sea convention.

Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican, has sent a letter pressing the Department of Interior for more information on its questionable oversight of offshore oil drilling.

For example, an «energy security fee» of $ 3.50 per barrel of imported oil would raise approximately $ 15 billion annually; reduced fossil fuel subsidies as proposed by the administration could generate upwards of $ 35 billion over ten years; a utilities electricity fee could raise at least $ 2 billion annually, as included in the Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act; and royalties on new offshore continental shelf drilling could raise more than $ 100 billion over twenty years.

As it stands as the start of June 2010, expansion of offshore drilling in US coastal waters remains on hold pending investigation of the causes of the BP oil spill.

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But the four prongs of the speech were not about using less fuel, but boosting supplies: drilling offshore, extracting oil from shale, drilling on the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and adding refineries.

These threatened species also face the prospect of offshore drilling in the Arctic after the Obama Administration recently approved a number of plans to move forward on oil exploration.

The Surfrider Foundation is using this year's Hands Across The Sand event to raise awareness on «Three Essential Truths» about new offshore drilling: it will not reduce the price at the pump; it will not eliminate America's reliance on foreign oil; and it is an inherently risky activity that causes significant impacts to the environment through every stage of the drilling process.

We strongly support reinstatement of the federal moratorium on new offshore oil drilling.

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Supply, cost, environmental consequences - these are among the central features of debate over energy policy in the U.S. Those who want to open up more areas to drilling - on land and offshore - and expand the use of fracking to extract natural gas from deep underground argue that we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil.