Sentences with phrase «with the spilled fuel»

In turn, the afternoon rain combined with the spilled fuel created slippery roads that led to the pileup.

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Contacted in 2011 by The Tyee, Dr. Carl E. Brown, research manager of Emergencies, Science and Technology Division at Environment Canada confirmed that «a concern with bitumen fuels is their density is quite high and chances are if those materials were spilled into the marine environment, those products might sink.»

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Soil at the site was contaminated with diesel fuel at up to 20,000 parts per million, similar to concentrations on Alaskan beaches after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

$ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosure

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

Worse yet is how the oceans have become poisoned with spilled fossil fuels and how those spills have impacted thousands of plant and animal species as well as the environment.

Fuel consumption for the week was 11.7 L / 100 km, which isn't as dire as it sounds, considering the first 90 minutes in our custody the RAV4 sat in unmoving traffic with the air - conditioning running as Melbourne's road network grappled with a load of offal spilled at the entry to the Burnley tunnel.

Sadly, Ford did not spill the beans on horsepower or torque specs, but we expect it to make more than the first - generation 2.7 - liter's 325 horsepower and 375 pound - feet of torque, plus with better fuel economy.

The US business cycle is reaching maturity with improvements in the housing market likely to fuel further consumption growth giving spill - over benefits for Europe.

On Wednesday, it helped to fuel a move higher in stocks, with that momentum spilling over into the pre-market this morning ahead of news of muted consumer inflation.

When a barge dangerously laden with logging equipment, including a tanker truck of diesel fuel, spilled its load in the heart of the world's best known orca habitat — the Ecological Reserve at Robson Bight — last August 20th, whale lovers were outraged, environmentalists dismayed, the public alerted, and even the oil industry took note.

There's virtually zero setup and it's extremely easy to use with no risk of fuel spills and no priming required.

Our fuel is safely contained with a fuel spill containment area and all fuel products are stored within this compound including used oil and fuel filters.

But in the early 1950s, in the years just before his tragic death at age 44 in an alcohol - fueled car crash, Pollock was experimenting with a new way of confronting his surface, spilling black enamel paint — the kind you might use on outdoor ironwork — onto raw cotton duck canvas, a clashing, angry union of synthetic industrial chemical and unprimed organic substrate.

The spill, estimated to be roughly 4,000 barrels (or 168,000 gallons), began after a tanker vessel carrying heavy fuel oil collided with a cargo ship in Galveston Bay, an estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico.

It's been a rough year or so for the fossil fuels industry, what with exploding fracking wells, massive coal ash dumps, and oil spills from pipelines.

So in order to cope with this problem, Higgins makes a distinction between «ascertainable ecocide»: deforestation, oil spills, fossil fuel extraction, pollution - dumping; and non-ascertainable ecocide: tsunami, earthquake, typhoon, Act of God.

With climate change wreaking havoc on the health of the nearby Great Lakes and the cleanup of the Kalamazoo spill still going on four years later, experts say Upton's pro-fossil fuel agenda is wearing thin with his constitueWith climate change wreaking havoc on the health of the nearby Great Lakes and the cleanup of the Kalamazoo spill still going on four years later, experts say Upton's pro-fossil fuel agenda is wearing thin with his constituewith his constituents.

Offshore oil drilling would threaten Virginia's coastal communities and fishing and tourism industries with devastating spills, while enabling more of the fossil fuel pollution causing climate change and rising sea levels.

Oil spills are one of many environmental risks associated with fossil fuel use.

Not only are they dealing with the devastating fallout of the BP oil spill, but they are struggling to keep up with ever - rising fuel costs too.

But Obama and his top deputies have yet to talk about reducing the nation's dependence on fossil fuels in connection with the oil spill, something that worries environmentalists such as Brune.

Jay focuses his practice in the area of insurance related matters, including insurance coverage issues, and claims dealing with the New York State Navigation Law, with regards to fuel oil spills.

Wednesday's fuel spill ignited fears of greater catastrophe with a potential increase in tanker traffic on the West Coast.

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