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Little evidence has also been found to support the idea that oil prices will either stabilize or decrease once pipelines are constructed. [53] [52] Critics of pipeline transport of oil cite environmental and land rights issues. Protests over the Keystone XL Pipeline beginning in 2011 [54] and Dakota Access Pipeline have expressed these same ...
Assembly Democrats continued a pattern in California of allowing regulators to adopt more rules for the oil industry that could lower price spikes in the future. At Newsom's urging, lawmakers ...
"The EPA’s Waste Emissions Charge rule will further increase energy costs by placing an effective tax on America’s oil and gas industry that will be passed directly to consumers.
In attempts to lift regulations on oil, mining, drilling, and farming industries, the Trump administration proposed a 31% budget cut to the EPA that would result in reduced initiatives to protect water and air quality, leaving much of the effort up to the states. [126] [213] Environmentalists fear that these cuts will result in health problems ...
Prices inflation adjusted to 2008 dollars. In 2002, a committee of the National Academy of Sciences wrote a report on the effects of the CAFE standard. [2] The report's conclusions include a finding that in the absence of CAFE, and with no other fuel economy regulation substituted, motor vehicle fuel consumption would have been approximately 14 percent higher than it actually was in 2002.
Between coal and gas plants, the EPA's new regulations are projected to eliminate 1.38 billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047, the same as preventing the annual emissions of 328 ...
"We've seen the oil and gas industry prosper and produce more oil and gas than ever before, even with EPA regulations," Cohan said. Since the EPA first started regulating clean air in the 1970s ...
US natural gas production peaked in 1973, [15] and the price has risen significantly since then. Coal provided the bulk of US energy needs well into the 20th century. Most urban homes had a coal bin and a coal-fired furnace. Over the years these were replaced with oil furnaces that were easier and safer to operate. [16]