Sentences with phrase «regulating oil and gas industry»

DEP promotes a healthy environment by protecting air, land, and water, as well as regulating the oil and gas industry.

Cautious approach to regulating oil and gas industry disappoints environmentalists, who regard the plan as a «toe in the water.»

The Texas Railroad Commission, the agency that regulates the oil and gas industry, was met with public outcry after the first earthquake swarm.

Not exact matches

The board, which regulates the province's oil and gas industry, said it expects oil sands production to hit 3.8 million bpd in nine years, up from 1.9 million bpd in 2012.

Oil and gas is highly regulated when this industry is exempt!?

Petroleum industry interests said the EPA's plan to regulate existing oil and gas operations was overkill.

The Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit organization and a front group for the energy industry that opposes political efforts to regulate carbon standards while advancing deep water and land - based drilling for oil and methane gas.

The U.S. oil and gas industry was declining until the U.S. government stopped regulating the dumping of toxic chemicals.

America's oil and natural gas industry supports commonsense regulation, but a duplicative Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule regulating methane emissions is a solution in search of a problem.

«While setting methane standards for the first time is an important step, failing to immediately regulate existing oil and gas equipment nationwide misses 90 percent of the methane pollution from the industry,» said Conrad Schneider, advocacy director for the Clean Air Task Force, a Boston - based environmental group.

The Obama Administration's new plan to regulate methane emissions from the oil and gas industry will at best only slow down the country's fastest - growing source of heat - trapping gases.

Brian Straessle, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute, which represents much of the oil and gas industry in Washington, D.C., said the industry «is highly regulated at the state and federal level, and there are strong standards in place to govern the pipeline infrastructure that helps fuel our economy.

State oil and gas agencies across the country that are supposed to be regulating the drilling industry, and ensuring risks to the environment and human health are minimized, are also tasked with promoting the same industry.

The group brings together members of the bar who represent clients in the rapidly changing legal environment in infrastructure and regulated industries including the aviation, communications, electricity, gas, oil pipeline, railroad, transportation infrastructure, and water industries.