Additionally, the pollution from oil and oil products when used as fuel is dramatically higher than natural gas, which would replace them.
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They have complained for years that pollution from oil sands projects was fouling their drinking water and making the Athabasca River unsafe for swimming and fishing.
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Yet 82 percent of teens and 76 percent of boomers think government leaders should do more to control pollution from the oil and chemical industries, even if that increases the price of gas and oil.
The Taj Mahal's glistening marble was threatened by pollution from local foundries, oil refineries and city traffic.
Production of oil from tar sands bitumen produces between three and five times the greenhouse gas pollution of conventional oil production.
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While the pipeline project is a better alternative from a carbon pollution standpoint than shipping the oil by rail, the emissions created by harvesting tar sands, processing them into oil and eventually burning it in automobiles in the U.S. and abroad will contribute to global warming.
There has been no pollution so far but a potential danger from an oil spill remains.
A. moved to reduce surface ozone, a form of pollution caused, in part, by emissions from oil refineries.
However, experts say the pollution could have been caused by oil which had leaked from the wreck some time ago and was blown back to land by strong winds.
Chevron has never made a pretense of playing nice with the U.S. lawyers suing it over pollution left over from when its Texaco unit was drilling for oil in the jungles of Ecuador.
Siberia is ablaze with the surplus gas from oil wells just burning off into the sky, adding to Russia's pollution problem.
But the Oil Pollution Act bans the U.S.-built ship from Alaskan waters.
Environmental groups, foundations, and major oil and gas companies came together to support stringent measures to protect air and water from pollution in the Appalachian region, and they invited other groups to join in and help limit pollution from fracking.
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