Natural gas

...electrical utility would submit a new application for a smaller, 330-megawatt facility, one he promised would be the "cleanest burning natural gas power plant" in the nation. Assemblyman John Perez (D-Los Angeles) described the...

In this article: Vernon, John Perez, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, Martha Escutia, California Energy Commission, and Cancer

...the highest levels of the commission. News 8 learned the TCEQ found something potentially hazardous in the air near some natural gas facilities during testing conducted around the Barnett Shale. Benzene, a cancer-causing, dangerous toxin,...

In this article: Benzene, Toxin, Cancer, Devon Energy, Fort Worth, and EPA

...6% of GDP. Two-thirds of this total was residential construction. Argentina produces electricity in large part through well developed natural gas and hydroelectric resources. Nuclear energy is also of high importance and the country is one of...

In this article: Argentina, Inflation, Juan Peron, Arturo Frondizi, Recession, Central Bank, Maize, Unemployment, World War I, and Jose Alfredo Martinez de Hoz

...that Texaco discharged more than 18 billion gallons of waste water into rivers and streams, burned millions of cubic meters of natural gas without proper emissions controls and spilled millions of gallons of crude oil directly into the...

In this article: Texaco, Chevron Corp, Ecuador, Plaintiff, Petroecuador, Waste, New York, and United States

...for their contributions to reducing deaths from radon. Radon, a colorless, odorless and tasteless natural gas, is our nation's second leading cause of lung cancer, after smoking. Radon is linked to about 21,000 cancer deaths each year. It...

In this article: Radon, National Safety Council, Cancer, National Press Club, Lung cancer, and EPA

Price gains should start slowing this month, though, as the economic downturn deepens and Mexico's government freezes gasoline prices and slashes electricity and natural gas costs, the bank said in a statement announcing its decision.

In this article: Mexico, Cancer, Recession, Inflation, Florida, Unemployment, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and The Miami Herald

Last summer the U.S. Land Management Bureau documented that groundwater in Sublette County, Wyo., which has one of the country's largest natural gas fields and where hydraulic fracturing is commonly employed, had been contaminated with...

In this article: Tony Avella, Christine Quinn, New York City, E mail, Benzene, Cancer, and David Paterson

...sites PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.S. government scientists have for the first time found chemical contaminants in drinking water wells near natural gas drilling operations, fueling concern that a gas-extraction technique is endangering the...

In this article: Environmental Protection Agency, Cancer, U.S., Philadelphia, and Wyoming

...fleet of new natural gas trucks are blazing a 'path to the future.' Within a few years use of natural gas trucks could become the industry norm in New York City." Because of just the 38 natural gas trucks put on the streets in the NY...

In this article: Blythe Danner, New York City, Asthma, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sustainable South Bronx, and Tax