It's primarily a natural gas portfolio in the lower 48.
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That was the first decline from the Lower 48 since January.
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It also portends consequences for the Lower 48 states and beyond.
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All told, there are about 1,800 in the lower 48 states.
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Only one facility in the lower 48 states — Cheniere Energy Inc.
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"The reduction will be sourced by slowing operated development activity in the Lower 48, expected decreases in non-operated activity in the Lower 48, and deferred drilling in Alaska," the company said in a public statement.
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December 2015 was the warmest December on record for the Lower 48.
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But adjusting to life in the "lower 48" states hasn't been easy.
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It is the largest national wildlife refuge in the lower 48 states.
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Only about 300 of the animals are in the lower 48 states.
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Companies have a wealth of other opportunities to pursue in the Lower 48.
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Monthly production in the lower 48 states peaked in February at 603 bcfd.
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Now the fish are available in the lower 48, direct from the fishery.
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Slow to reproduce, grizzlies number fewer than 2,000 in the Lower 48 states.
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Other ham radio operators within the lower 48 were then passing messages along.
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The lower 48 states are split in more ways than just politics on Monday.
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Sabine Pass is the only LNG export terminal in the lower 48 U.S. states.
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In the U.S., much of the Lower 48 was warmer than average, NOAA reports.
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Cheniere Energy operates the only LNG export terminal in the lower 48 United States.
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Zuback loaded up on warm weather clothes before heading off to the Lower 48.
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Of the lower 48 US states, only 10 aren't under a wind-chill alert.
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The American Prairie Reserve would be the biggest wildlife reserve in the lower 48.
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By 1979, Americans had nearly annihilated our national bird in the lower 48 states.
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But amongst the lower 48, Canada, and Mexico you can place place your bets now.
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On Wednesday, EIA data showed crude production rose notably, particularly in the lower 48 states.
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The cost of living is high as goods are shipped from the Lower 48 states.
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The Lower 48's wilderness, particularly the rivers, is a shell of its former self.
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But, for those able and interested in hiking, glaciers certainly abound in the Lower 48.
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Grizzlies, which are slow to reproduce, number fewer than 2,000 bears across the Lower 48.
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Green, cocky pilots fresh from the lower 48 tend to forget that rule just once.
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Alaska fire officials are being aided by firefighting teams from the Lower 48 states and Canada.
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Cooler regions were seen across Canada, parts of the Lower 48 states and in central China.
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It is less technically challenging to ramp up production on federal lands in the Lower 48.
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Last year's Alaskan-grown tree was the first to come from outside the lower 48 states.
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It will still be the first facility to export natural gas from the lower 48 states.
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So far this year, the lower 48 states have had their third-warmest year on record.
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By some estimates, one of every three houses in the lower 48 is located within it.
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This marks a new rainfall record for any tropical storm or hurricane in the lower 48 states.
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The past 12 months have been the wettest such period on record in the Lower 48 states.
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The flip side to the upcoming Arctic warming will be colder weather in the lower 48 states.
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That represents about 2% of the 90 bcfd of gas produced in the Lower 48 U.S. states.
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Grizzly bears outside of the Yellowstone area -- in the lower 48 states -- will continue to have protection.
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The grizzly bear was listed as threatened across its historic range in the lower 48 in 1975.
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The virus is now endemic in the lower 48 states and has killed more than 1,700 people.
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In 1978, the Fish and Wildlife Service declared it to be threatened in the lower 48 states.
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The vast storm will "impact almost every state in the lower 48," says CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen.
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That's true, I've discovered, even with canned salmon bought at a grocery store in the lower 48.
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Gas production in the Lower 48 states held at 94.5 bcfd on Monday, the same as Sunday.
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The Gray Wolf had almost disappeared in the lower 48 US states in the early 20th century.
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Nowhere in the Lower 48 do lands exist with qualities comparable to the refuge's intactness and spaciousness.
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Nowhere in the Lower 48 do lands exist with qualities comparable to the refuge's intactness and spaciousness.
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NERC oversees regional electric reliability entities in the Lower 48 U.S. states, Canada and parts of Mexico.
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Average November temperatures were at least above the historical mean in every one of the lower 48 states.
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She had dreams of becoming a massage therapist and had briefly studied it down in the Lower 48.
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In the Lower 48, the highest average price of regular gasoline was $2.85 per gallon in San Francisco.
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In the Lower 48, the highest average price of regular gasoline was $2.83 per gallon in San Francisco.
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In the Lower 48, the highest average price of regular gasoline was $2.79 per gallon in San Francisco.
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In the Lower 48, the highest average price of regular gasoline was $2.87 per gallon in San Francisco.
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This marks the first time a total eclipse has graced skies above the lower 48 states since 33.
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In February 2016 the United States began exporting LNG from the lower 48 states for the first time.
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About 57 percent of the coast in the lower 48 states is already eroding, according to the USGS.
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Unlike watersheds in the Lower 48, Bristol Bay — its rivers, headwaters, and forests — are in relatively pristine condition.
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Harvey dropped over a foot more rain than any prior storm on record in the lower 48 states.
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LongPoint will acquire oil and natural gas mineral royalty interests in the lower 48 U.S. states, CPPIB said.
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The agency estimated there were 5,505 wolves in the lower 48 states, not in the continental United States.
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Corpus Christi is the third big LNG export terminal to enter service in the lower 48 U.S. states.
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A total solar eclipse hasn't occurred in the lower 48 states since 1979, according to the Washington Post.
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Molly shares her adventures via her vlog, giving kids in the "lower 48" a look at life in Alaska.
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Already, a statistically robust uptick in heavy precipitation events has been observed in many of the Lower 48 states.
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Background: AP shared an analysis of warm temperature records versus cold records since 1920 within the Lower 48 states.
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That represents about 2% of the 90 bcfd of gas currently being produced in the Lower 48 U.S. states.
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It will also be the first total solar eclipse visible from any of the Lower 48 states since 1979.
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Oil production in the lower 48 states fell for a third-straight week to 8.588 million barrels a day.
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To put that in perspective, about 60 percent of streams in the lower 48 states aren't active year-round.
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In the Lower 48 states, the highest average price of regular gasoline was $2.51 per gallon in Los Angeles.
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Only one LNG export terminal is operating in the Lower 48 states: Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass facility in Louisiana.
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Hunters and trappers had nearly wiped them out across most of the lower 48 states by the late 19703s.
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That represents about 2% of the 90 bcfd of all the gas produced in the Lower 48 U.S. states.
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Cheniere is currently the only company operating a fully operational LNG export terminal in the Lower 48 United States.
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It will also be the first total solar eclipse visible from any of the lower 48 states since 1979.
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That firm represents Cheniere Energy, which in December was the only company exporting LNG from the lower 48 states.
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Over all, grizzly bears still occupy only 2 to 4 percent of their ancient range in the lower 48 states.
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Gas production in the lower 48 edged up to 91.0 bcfd on Wednesday from 90.8 bcfd on Tuesday, Refinitiv said.
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Forget California—Oklahoma is now the most earthquake prone state in the lower 48, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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The Lower 48 states have seen the deepest cuts, particularly for high-cost unconventional projects that require advanced drilling methods.
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In the lower 48 states, they drove production to nearly 8.8 million barrels a day in the week through Dec.
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Every state across the lower 48 states saw milder-than-average conditions during the first 10 months of the year.
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The area -- the southernmost point in Texas -- is the second in the lower 48 states to report locally transmitted cases.
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The area — the southernmost point in Texas — is the second in the lower 48 states to report locally transmitted cases.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now wants to take away protection for wolves in all the lower 48 states.
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The last time gas output in the Lower 48 declined was in January 2018 when production fell by 1.56 bcfd.
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Production in Oklahoma rose to 7.51 bcfd, a new record for that state, the third biggest producer in the lower 48.
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In 2013, birds in Alaska suffered their first epidemic of avian cholera, which typically infects birds in the lower 48 states.
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It was the hottest June on record for the contiguous US, with none of the lower 48 seeing below average temperatures.
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Despite those gains, the grizzly is found in only about 2 percent of its original range in the Lower 48 states.
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On Thursday, 43 percent of the lower 48 states are expected to see daily high temperatures remain below 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Taiwanese leaders have had to lobby hard just for the privilege of making a pit stop in the lower 48 states.
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"It's important that we continue to protect the fewer than 6,000 that we have in the lower 48," he said. Rep.
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Gas production in the Lower 48 fell to 94.3 bcfd on Monday from 94.8 bcfd on Sunday, according to Refinitiv data.
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It is how we managed by the mid-20th century to eradicate gray wolves almost completely from the lower 48 states.
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Sabine Pass was the first big LNG export terminal to enter service in the Lower 48 U.S. states in February 2016.
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The United States has fewer than 6,000 wolves in the lower 48 states and perhaps as many as 11,000 in Alaska.
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Gas production in the Lower 48 states slipped to 95.3 bcfd on Sunday from 35.0093 bcfd on Saturday, according to Refinitiv.
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Gas production in the Lower 48 states rose to 94.9 bcfd on Sunday from 94.8 bcfd on Saturday, according to Refinitiv.
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Gas production in the Lower 48 states rose to 95.3 bcfd on Thursday from 95.1 bcfd on Wednesday, according to Refinitiv.
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Daylight and heat are the main factors that determine blooming time in temperate areas such as the lower 48 U.S. states.
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Wolves were hunted, trapped and poisoned to near extinction in the Lower 48 states before coming under federal protections in the 1970s.
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For the lower 48 states, the 83.97 bcfd produced also stands as a record, surpassing the previous record set a month earlier.
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By the time the Endangered Species Act went into effect in 1973, fewer than 1,000 wolves lived in the lower 48 states.
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So it's a really great place to do a lot of things that it's really tough to do in the lower 48.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today that the lower 48 U.S. states recently experienced their warmest May on record.
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He noted that weekly U.S. crude production in the Lower 48 states rose by 105,000 barrels a day after dipping last week.
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Alaska has reported 40,000 individual bald eagles, according to this interactive map from CNN, but among the lower 48 states, Minnesota leads.
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Hot and humid weather conditions that result from a heat wave over the Lower 48 create a perfect atmosphere for these events.
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The Lower 48 states just had their sixth warmest winter on record, with pretty much all of California experiencing above-average temperatures.
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The last few weeks of Turner's campaign overlapped with Bloomberg's massive November ad buy that covered all of the lower 48 states.
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"Geographically speaking, I'd say about half of the lower 48 states are under some sort of weather alert," one meteorologist said. 7.
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So he turned to Canada, where he co-founded Cronos Group, to avoid regulatory snags until things changed in the Lower 48.
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And while the fire season in the Lower 48 has got off to a relatively slow start this year, Alaska is again ablaze.
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In early estimates, gas production in the Lower 48 states will slip about 0.9 bcfd to 85.8 bcfd on Wednesday, according to Refinitiv.
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Almost 14 percent of the lower 48 United States is still in drought, despite the heavy rains that have fallen in some regions.
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But before the family can move to "the lower 48," Matt suffers an injury that forces the show's producers to call a medic.
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But onshore output from the Lower 48 states is also now growing more slowly, a sign the drilling boom is beginning to cool.
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Thieves swiping a car in the lower 48 have options: Drive it to another state for resale or sell the parts for scrap.
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Despite wolves accounting for less than 1 percent of livestock death, this presumption nearly led to their extinction in the lower 48 states.
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There are only three wild reindeer — all female, known as the Selkirk herd — left in the lower 48 states, according to the NRDC.
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In Bonner's Ferry in Northern Idaho he lived, in a literal sense, at the farthest frontier you can find in the lower 48.
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In the lower 48 states, tribes were forced onto reservations as a tide of settlers took tribal land for farms, ranches or mines.
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Gas production in the lower 48 states edged up to 91.5 bcfd on Wednesday from 91.3 bcfd on Tuesday, according to Refinitiv data.
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Alaskans are proud of Kodiak's accomplishments, and with the right policies in place, we can use Kodiak as a model across the Lower 48.
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In addition, sea ice loss may be rewriting global weather patterns, contributing to extreme weather events as far away as the Lower 48 states.
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The coldest temperature in the lower 48 states this morning was minus-22 degrees Fahrenheit, set at both Aberdeen, South Dakota and Fosston, Minnesota.
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All of the lower 48 states could see colder-than-average temperatures for at least a few days during the middle of the month.
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Projects in the harsh seas are expensive, and companies have a wealth of other opportunities to pursue in the lower 48 states and elsewhere.
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Cheniere operates the Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Louisiana, the only LNG export terminal operating in the lower 48 states.
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The agency's 2019 Spring Outlook found that nearly two-thirds of the lower 48 states are at risk for flooding in the coming months.
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The Sabine Pass facility is the first in the lower 48 states to complete construction on a gas liquefaction system, known as a train.
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When the bald eagle was adopted as our national emblem, an estimated 33,000 pairs were nesting in what later became the lower 48 states.
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Outside of the Rocky Mountains, snowfall in May is uncommon in the lower 48 states, but when it happens, the storms can be memorable.
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That entrenched attitude may seem hokey in the Lower 48, but it is etched into the very skin of Alaska residents, winter after winter.
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U.S. flood warning: Nearly two-thirds of the lower 48 states will have an elevated risk of flooding until May, federal scientists have said.
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In North Korea's second intercontinental ballistic missile test, on July 143, the Hwasong-14 demonstrated the potential to reach the lower 48 United States.
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One flowered cancer root can be found in all of the lower 48 states of the continental United States, as well as in Alaska.
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Why it matters: It's a stark sign of the oil giant's repositioning, including its increasing presence in the shale patch in the Lower 48.
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A merging of bears from these two wild strongholds is considered critical for the long-term genetic viability of grizzlies in the Lower 48.
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Since then, however, temperatures have plunged well below normal across most of the lower 48 states pushing cumulative heating demand up sharply (tmsnrt.rs/2QHeLqG).
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The unusually mild and dry summer and fall in the lower 48 states, in particular, has played a role in priming the Southeast for wildfires.
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The lower 48 states had an average temperature of 35.5 degrees and they all saw above- to much-above-average temperatures last month, it said.
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Since February 2016, when the United States started exporting the fuel from the Lower 48 states, it has become the world's fourth biggest LNG exporter.
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The previous record for the lower 48 states was established in 1978 by cyclone Amelia, in Medina, Texas, according to the NWS Houston Twitter account.
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Output from the Lower 48 states excluding the Gulf of Mexico is forecast to rise by 360,000 bpd ("Short-Term Energy Outlook", EIA, Feb 2017).
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Cheniere Energy currently operates the only LNG export terminal in the lower 48 states, but four others are under construction in Texas, Louisiana and Maryland.
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That announcement corresponded with a slight rebound in the grizzly population after it had fallen to several hundred in the lower 48 states in 1975.
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This high pressure area is expected to slide to the west with time, ensuring that much of the lower 48 states eventually experience this event.
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The gray wolf populations had dwindled to about 1,000 in the Lower 48 states when they received protection under the Endangered Species Act in 1975.
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The Alaska Native population, like the Native American population in the lower 48 states, faces higher rates of heart disease and stroke than white Americans.
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He has ad buys scheduled in the lower 48 states, including one that will air in the media market of Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
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MTA Fiber Holdings announced today that it would build the "first and only all-terrestrial" fiber optic network running from Alaska and into the Lower 48.
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As things stand, the iconic common loon could lose nearly 97% of the range it can occupy in the lower 48 states during the summer months.
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Last year brought one of the warmest fall seasons on record in the Lower 48 states — something that is unlikely to repeat this year, Gold said.
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It may be easy to dismiss the importance of Arctic drilling today, given the abundant oil and natural gas production currently happening in the Lower 48.
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It started exporting gas from the lower 48 states in February 2016, when the first vessel left Cheniere Energy Inc's Sabine Pass export terminal in Louisiana.
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Poland received its first shipment of U.S. LNG last month from Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass terminal, currently the only export facility in the lower 48 states.
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Gas production in the Lower 48 U.S. states averaged a near record 91.3 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) last week, according to data from Refinitiv.
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"In the lower 48, there's no question that [the sunflower sea star] is endangered and imperiled in those waters," Harvell told Motherboard in a Skype call.
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One of the least populated areas in the lower 48 — at 10,000 feet no less — Great Basin became an official International Dark Sky Park in 2016.
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In the lower 48 states, census mailings typically go out to households in mid-March, with April 1 designated the date of record for residential submissions.
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It was the wettest year on record for the lower 48 states, with the kind of extreme rainfall events that are increasingly associated with climate change.
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The Census Bureau has a long tradition of kicking off the count in rural Alaska months before it gets under way in the Lower 48 states.
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Still, the U.S. estimated that production in the lower 48 states has stalled over the last three weeks, and tighter spare capacity can be extremely bullish.
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This is the decade that the lower 48 states lost its last caribou, and that herds farther north in Canada have been shrinking by the millions.
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But temperatures in the Lower 48 U.S. states have been about 16 percent lower than normal since the beginning of March, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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Permafrost is the reason why, in Alaska, students do not get to stay home from school for "snow days" like they do in the Lower 48 states.
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During a solar eclipse, the shadow of the moon falls on the Earth's surface—an event that hasn't been visible in the lower 48 states since 1979.
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That range would not be enough to reach the lower 48 states or the large islands of Hawaii, but would allow it to reach all of Alaska.
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In July, 93-year-old Eva Luna Harper-Zahn trekked up the 14,505 feet of Mount Whitney, home to the highest summit in the lower 48 states.
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Fewer than 2,000 grizzlies are estimated to inhabit the Lower 48 states, and the species had remained under federal protection in five other regions outside of Yellowstone.
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It's a 10-minute clip collection from ABC News' coverage of the last large-scale total solar eclipse to be seen in the lower 48 U.S. states.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) spring outlook says nearly two-thirds of the lower 48 states are at an elevated risk of flooding until May.
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Fund-raisers known as cake walks — a variation on musical chairs — pay for coffins, support people through chemotherapy and send whole basketball teams to the Lower 48.
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It's no surprise that more than 40 years after grizzlies were protected in the lower 48, there are still only about 1,800 of them roaming the West.
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In the lower 48 states, the biggest oil plays are on private and state lands that hold the vast majority of our nation's oil and gas shales.
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Data provider Refinitiv estimated 401 heating degree days (HDDs) in the Lower 48 U.S. states over the next two weeks, down from Thursday's estimate of 411 HDDs.
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While some affected sea stars have begun to return to American waters on the West Coast, the sunflower star has not returned off the lower 48 states.
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Grizzly bear Current status: Threatened, except in certain parts of their range Estimated population: 1,800 in the lower 48 states; ~ 31,000 in Alaska, plus thousands more in Canada Found in: Isolated parts of the American West, Alaska and Canada Grizzly bears were first classified as "threatened" in 1975, when just 800 to 0003,000 were thought to be left in the lower 48 states in a few isolated territories.
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It was the second of two big LNG export terminal to enter service in the Lower 48 U.S. states after Cheniere Energy Inc's Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana.
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The Lower 48 states have had very little snow cover so far this winter, with just a quarter of this region counted as snow-covered as of Dec.
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Cheniere has been a pioneer in the industry, and its Sabine Pass on the Gulf Coast was the first U.S. LNG export facility in the lower 48 states.
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Additionally, by 22019, California is projected to see more than 140 days each year with high wildfire potential, the greatest number of days among the lower 48 states.
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In March alone, production in the Lower 48 states excluding the Gulf of Mexico rose by 22017,22017 bpd to its highest level in nearly a year (tmsnrt.rs/2310qJT2000fH).
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The average premium increase for a middle-class family of four that earns above $98,400 in the lower 48 states would be $1,3003 in 2019, according to CAP.
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Of the lower 48 states, only 10 weren't under a wind chill alert, and only two of those are east of the Rocky Mountains: Florida and South Carolina.
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Wood Mackenzie expects a 247% $223 billion) increase in 222 global upstream spending, with an increase of 22016% ($22017 billion) for the lower 48 states spending as well.
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But oil companies, especially giants with deep pockets like BP, have cheaper alternatives in the lower-48 at a time of modest oil prices and uncertain future demand.
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The study investigated the sources and effects of two major pollutants that harm humans, ozone and fine airborne particles, in the lower 48 states from 2005 to 2018.
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The storm system will cause widespread weather-related hazards through the Thanksgiving weekend as it tracks west to east across the lower 48, the National Weather Service said.
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But this is "an amplified weather pattern," he said, as the notably wavy jet will allow a significant, more intense weather contrast to manifest in the Lower 48.
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Production in the lower 48 U.S. states averaged an all-time high of 20163 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) over the past 30 days, according to Reuters data.
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The majority of his online customers are from the Lower 48 and are willing to pay $500 to $850 for custom hats and gloves, with specialty items fetching more.
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EIA has revised expected output at the end of 23 from the Lower 48 excluding the Gulf of Mexico up by 1.4 million bpd since March 2016 (tmsnrt.rs/2niqnRS).
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Why it matters: May 2018 to April 2019 was the wettest 12-month period on record for the Lower 48 states, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information.
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Production from the Lower 48 excluding federal waters in the Gulf is forecast to top 8 million bpd before the end of 2018, according to the Energy Information Administration.
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As the original inhabitants of the most northwesterly point in the lower 48 states, the Makah, with about 3,000 enrolled members, have been whaling for at least 19993,700 years.
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Gas production in the Lower 48 states, meanwhile, rose to a record 91.8 bcfd over the weekend from a low of 90.8 bcfd last week, according to Refinitiv data.
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But production from fields in the Lower 48 states excluding the Gulf of Mexico, most of which comes from onshore shale plays, also rose, by 0003,000 bpd (tmsnrt.rs/2qJOnyN).
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Source: Energy Information Administration Cheniere Energy currently operates the only LNG export terminal in the lower 48 states, but four others are under construction in Texas, Louisiana and Maryland.
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Yellowstone Park's 3,500 square miles of wilderness is home to the largest concentration of mammals in the lower 48 states, including an estimated 690 grizzly bears and 528 wolves.
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After the wipeout in last year's congressional elections, only a mere 38-mile strip of the Pacific shore in the lower-48 states, in Washington, remains in Republican hands.
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That peak, located in the Sierra Nevada range in California's Sequoia National Park, is the highest mountain in the lower 48 states, rising to 14,500 feet above sea level.
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More than 30% of the US population are forecast to brave temperatures below zero in the next week, while 75% of the Lower 48 will see temps below freezing.
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But much the way Trump has vowed to help the outdated industry of the coal miners in the Lower 48, Dunleavy seems determined to boost the number of lumberjacks.
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The Adirondack Mountain region is encompassed in the 6 million-acre Adirondack Park, the largest park in the Lower 48, nearly three times larger than the more-famous Yellowstone.
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A posting on the FAA's Air Traffic Control command center website confirmed the issue, with the ground stop listed as applying to all domestic airports in the lower 48 states.
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It edges past the record for the most rainfall ever recorded from a tropical storm or hurricane in the lower 48 states, during a storm that hit Texas in 1978.
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Just 2 ½ years ago the business was still in Huang's New Jersey garage and now the company operates four fulfillment centers nationally and delivers in all the lower 48 states.
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The big picture: The May precipitation total for the Lower 48 states was 53 inches, which was 1.5 inches above average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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"Through Thursday, 75 percent of the Lower 48 will have experienced a temperature below freezing, including Texas, the Deep South and the Pacific Northwest," the Post's Capital Weather Gang writes.
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Another undiscovered gem in Utah is Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument , an area the size of Delaware that was the last portion of the lower 48 states to be mapped.
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Imagine an area the size of Central America plus Mexico, plus the lower 48 states and a huge chunk of Canada, totally devoted to producing food we never even use.
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Data provider Refinitiv projected average gas demand in the Lower 48, including exports, would fall to 109.7 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) next week from 116.2 bcfd this week.
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Monday's event will be the first total solar eclipse spanning the entire continental United States since 1918 and the first visible anywhere in the Lower 48 states in 38 years.
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Originally from California, the Pattersons are making their way through the lower 48 states before Carter starts kindergarten to scope out new places in which they might want to live.
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North America's largest waterfowl, the trumpeter was nearly extinct in Canada and the lower 48 states for the better part of a century — brought down by the shotguns of Europeans.
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YOU KNOW, THERE IS A REASON WHY DEATH VALLEY, THE LOWEST SPOT IN THE LOWER 48 STATES, IS RIGHT NEXT TO MT. WHITNEY, THE TALLEST SPOT IN THE LOWER 73.
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U.S. crude production rebounded to an average of 9.35 million barrels per day from 8.78 million bpd a week earlier, entirely the result of increases in the lower 48 states.
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Since 1978, gray wolves have been classified as endangered in the Lower 48 states (except for Minnesota), but in 2019 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed lifting those protections.
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Prior to this, the only natural gas exports from the lower 48 states were via pipeline to Mexico, and the U.S. was a net importer overall of natural gas from Canada.
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Idaho, the Gem State, has the most mountain peaks of any state of the lower 48, the deepest gorge in North America and the longest undammed river in the United States.
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Thomson Reuters projected output in the lower 48 U.S. states would fall to 75.9 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) on Thursday from a recent high of 77.3 bcfd on Tuesday.
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A 21880 study found that the record highs to lows ratio was 2-to-1 for the lower 48 states during the 2000s, and this disparity has only grown since then.
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Michelle and Brandon Patterson have visited over 40 Trader Joe's stores in 39 states with their 5-year-old son, Carter, on an epic road trip across the lower 48 states.
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There are currently only two functional export terminals in the Lower 48 United States: the Sabine Pass facility and Dominion Energy's Cove Point, Maryland, terminal, which started commercial operation in April.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists predicts that chronic flooding from rising sea levels alone will impact almost 22019 cities and communities within the lower 48 states in less than 20 years.
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Michelle and Brandon Patterson have visited over 40 Trader Joe's stores in 34 states with their 5-year-old son, Carter, on an epic road trip across the lower 48 states.
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That amounts to 48 million additional tons of carbon dioxide a year, on average, about three-quarters of what was produced by forest fires in the lower 48 states in 2013.
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There are about 3993 million deer in the lower 48 states, 47 million ducks, a million elk, and 15 million pheasants, and they produce offspring annually and from a young age.
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People from the outside — the term Alaskans use for the Lower 48 states — do not often visit, and most residents grow up speaking their native Yup'ik language, Yugtun, before learning English.
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Story at a glance In the open plains of northeastern Montana, a coalition of wealthy investors are trying to create what would be the largest wildlife sanctuary in the Lower 48.
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Cove Point is the second LNG export plant in the lower 48 U.S. states after Cheniere Energy Inc's Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana, which exported its first cargo in February, 2016.
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The past 12 months have been the wettest such period on record for the Lower 48 since such records began in 1895, with rains especially concentrated in the Midwest, Plains and Northeast.
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He was a literary heir to Walt Whitman, depicting a rugged American individualism, romanticism and freedom as wide as the Lower 48, with his boots pulled up and his hat worn low.
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Since shipping out the first LNG cargo from the Lower 48 in 2016, the United States become the third biggest LNG exporter in the world by capacity by the end of 2018.
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Until recently, cases of Zika virus, which the CDC has concluded causes microcephaly and other birth defects, have been limited among U.S. residents to people who traveled outside the Lower 48 states.
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Image: NOAAIt's already been a sizzling summer—we recently learned that June was the hottest on record for the lower 48, and the mercury is showing no signs of mercy this month.
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We rightfully have a reputation for our seafood: we're just a car ride from some of the best shellfish in the lower 48 and homeport to much of the Alaskan fishing fleet.
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Since January, when he started at the Swinomish Dental Clinic, over 50 miles north of Seattle, he has been the only dental therapist on tribal land anywhere in the lower 48 states.
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The state's location in the Lower 48 is unmistakable — that slender peninsula at the bottom of the country, extended like the finger of some mythic Michelangelo figure reaching to touch the ineffable.
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In February of 2016, the first large-scale shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the lower 48 states departed Cheniere's Sabine Pass export terminal, opening a new chapter in American energy.
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Gulf of Mexico output rose by 228,000 bpd in the five months to February, while onshore production from the lower 48 states increased by 175,000 bpd and Alaska's output rose 61,20153 bpd.
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Analysts at Thomson Reuters forecast demand in the Lower 48 states for the forthcoming week at 79.8 bcfd, down from 81.7 bcfd for the current week and 81.2 bcfd in the previous week.
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Increased knowledge and appreciation of the natural world led to the eventual signing of the Endangered Species Act in 1973; wolves were added to the list in the lower 48 the next year.
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Revisions are concentrated in output from the Lower 48 states, excluding federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, so they are mostly about shale output, rather than offshore fields and Alaska (tmsnrt.rs/2moXWnN).
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Onshore production from the Lower 48 states, most of it from shale plays, grew by just 1.34 million bpd year-on-year in February-April down from 1.81 million bpd in August-October.
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So far only Sabine Pass is exporting LNG from the lower 48 states and output will double to 9 million tonnes per annum as Cheniere adds a second production line later this year.
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Because although there are just over 248,000 wolves in the lower 48 states, mostly throughout the western Great Lakes and northern Rocky Mountains, they occupy less than 15 percent of their historic range.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The United States has exported its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from the lower 48 states, after a tanker set sail from Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass export terminal in Louisiana.
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The frigid air mass first entered the lower 48 states on Wednesday, and on Thursday morning, air temperatures were in the single digits Fahrenheit in Minnesota, and below zero Fahrenheit in North Dakota.
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By 1975, the grizzly population had dwindled from an estimated 50,000 animals in the Lower 48 to fewer than 200 in the Yellowstone region, and bears were dying faster than they could reproduce.
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With wind chill so astonishingly low, at a time when half the country was locked in a deep arctic freeze, Mount Washington was likely to be the coldest place in the lower 48.
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Even in Alaska, this is a bargain: Although wild salmon can sell for more than $25 a pound in the lower 48, here it will still cost $10 or more at the grocery.
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U.S. gross natural gas production in the lower 48 states rose by nearly 2.8 billion cubic feet per day to about 91.9 bcfd in September, the highest output since April 2015, the EIA said.
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During the period from March 1 to March 8, 2016, 918 warm temperature records were set or tied across the lower 48 states, compared to just 113 cold temperature records during the same period.
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It's possible that Hurricane Maria will curve out to sea without making landfall in the lower 48 states, but since that is still a long-range forecast, there's a lot of uncertainty with it.
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From Tuesday to Thursday, temperatures about 5,000 feet above the surface, which forecasters look to as an indicator of potential surface temperatures, may reach the coldest values ever observed in the lower 48 states.
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That's according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which earlier this year predicted that two-thirds of the states in the lower 48 would risk major or moderate flooding between March and May.
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"In our view, this proposal is premature because wolf recovery in the lower 48 states is not yet complete," says Zack Strong, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group.
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While those of us in the Lower 48 may wonder how the price of oil can have such a catastrophic effect on a state's finances, we must remember that our 49th state is unique.
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Natural gas output in the Lower 48 U.S. states could drop to a seven-week low of 87.2 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) on Friday from a record 91.1 bcfd on July 5.
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Environmentalists countered that treating those bears separately from other grizzly populations in Montana and elsewhere in the Lower 48 states was biologically unsound and illegal under the Endangered Species Act, and the judge agreed.
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The Forest Service also put forward in June a sweeping set of proposed rule changes that would expedite environmental reviews required for logging on not just Alaska's public lands, but throughout the Lower 48.
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As the weather cools with autumn, data provider Refinitiv projected average gas demand in the lower 48 U.S. states will drop from 85.3 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) to 81.9 bcfd next week.
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"That range would not be enough to reach the lower 48 states or the large islands of Hawaii, but would allow it to reach all of Alaska," Mr. Wright wrote in a blog post.
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The NOAA report also found that 21.5 was the third-warmest year on record for the lower 48 states, with an average annual temperature that was 2.6 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th Century average.
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With a rural population of a quarter-million people spread over a sprawling wilderness of more than 570,000 square miles, consolidating schools districts or closing regional facilities creates hardships not felt in the lower 48.
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Those in the US who aren't along the path will still be in for quite a show: every state in the lower 48 will see the majority of the Sun covered up on the 21st.
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Hunting, trapping and poisoning had caused the number of grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region to plummet to 136 in 1975, when the outsized, hump-shouldered creatures were listed as threatened in the Lower 48.
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About half of U.S. petroleum consumption is on the East and West Coasts, while the large expanse in the middle of the country accounts for 93 percent of crude output in the lower 48 states.
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"Just trying to navigate walking down the sidewalk is an experience," Bam told PEOPLE in February of moving to an urban area in the "lower 48" and falling "head over heels" for a city girl.
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In 2010, State Health Facts reported that the guaranteed issue states of New York, Vermont, New jersey, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut and New Hampshire had the highest average per person premiums in the lower 48 states.
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A chapter about hiking Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the Lower 48, with a homemade poop-collection tube he calls the Immaculator, on the other hand, is gonzo comedy aimed at a serious point.
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News of the Great Alaska Earthquake reached a small team of sociologists at Ohio State University early the following morning, when communication from Alaska to the Lower 48 was still scant, and rumors ricocheted wildly.
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U.S. natural gas production in the lower 48 states rose to 89.09 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in April, up from a revised 88.83 bcfd in March, according to the EIA's 914 production report.
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"If people are traveling to the lower 48, and they take their dog with them to visit family, and then they come back up, it's possible that they bring a tick with them," she explains.
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One should expect few, if any, cold temperature records to be set or tied during the coming two weeks, even though temperatures will run below average in the eastern half of the lower 48 states.
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Similarly, average temperatures during the first five months of 2019 across the Lower 48 was 43.4°F or just 0.1°F above the 20th century average, which is middle of the road, in terms of statistics.
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The United States started exporting the super-cooled gas from the Lower 48 states in February 2016 and is expected to become the world's third biggest LNG exporter by capacity in 2019, behind Australia and Qatar.
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Cowen said the E&Ps it tracks planned to spend about $66.1 billion on drilling and completions in the lower 48 U.S. states in 2017, about 53 percent over what they planned to spend in 2016.
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Cowen said the E&Ps it tracks planned to spend about $9.33 billion on drilling and completions in the lower 48 U.S. states in 2017, about 53 percent over what they planned to spend in 22015.
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Cowen said the E&Ps it tracks planned to spend about $9.33 billion on drilling and completions in the lower 48 U.S. states in 2017, about 53 percent over what they planned to spend in 2978.
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Over the next few days, more than 85 percent of the lower 48's population will see temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, Hennen said, and more than half will see temperatures in excess of 95 degrees.
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Output in the Lower 48 U.S. states, meanwhile, averaged 203 bcfd during the week to April 12, shy of the all-time daily high of 90.2 bcfd hit on March 29, according to Refinitiv Eikon data.
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You're about as far off the map as you can get within the lower 48 states and, unless you're from Seattle, you probably don't have to worry about bumping into someone you know in the buff.
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Between February 103, when the United States started exporting LNG from the Lower 48 states, and July 2018, when the trade war started, China was the third biggest purchaser of U.S. shipments of the supercooled fuel.
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Tight oil is close and convenient on land in the lower 48 states — not in deep water, not in the Arctic and not in remote corners of the world where operations are difficult, expensive or risky.
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Every state along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in the Lower 48 United States has federally approved coastal management plans in place, allowing them to review whether federal offshore lease sales are consistent with those plans.
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Also, plaintiffs say that climate change is already leading to problems like coastal erosion that is forcing communities to relocate, and exacerbated wildfires as temperatures rise twice as fast in Alaska compared to the lower 48.
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Cowen said the E&Ps it tracks planned to spend about $66.1 billion on drilling and completions in the lower 48 U.S. states in 2017, about 53 percent over what they planned to spend in 113.
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Along with geoscience students from Denison University, I'll visit classics like the Grand Canyon and Zion—along with a place where only 1,000 years ago, some of the most recent volcanism in the lower 48 states occurred.
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U.S. natural gas production in the lower 48 states rose to a monthly all-time high of 87.1 billion cubic feet per day in December, from the prior record of 86.4 bcfd in November, the EIA said.
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Depending where you live in the U.S., you might experience severe thunderstorms, flooding rains, sizzling heat, or unseasonable cold and snow during the next five days as an unusually divisive weather pattern develops across the Lower 48.
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A lot has happened in the oil business over the last decade, notably the shale boom that has brought a wealth of opportunities in the lower 48 states that are cost-effective even at modest oil prices.
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Looking at the big picture, there are only two stable populations of grizzly bears in the Lower 48: Yellowstone and the Crown of the Continent area, which encompasses Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall wilderness complex.
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GORHAM, N.H. — The moment you step out into the frozen air on the way up Mount Washington — one of the most frigid spots in the lower 48 — the icy wind steals your breath and freezes your eyelashes.
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As the weather cools with the coming of autumn, data provider Refinitiv projected average gas demand in the lower 48 U.S. states will drop from 85.5 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) to 82.0 bcfd next week.
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Once it enters service, Cove Point will be the second large LNG export terminal in the lower 48 U.S. states, after Cheniere Energy Inc's Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana, which exported its first cargo in February 2016.
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Total gas consumption in the lower 48 U.S. states peaked at 141.9 billion cubic feet per day on Monday, New Year's Day, and was expected to remain near that level all week, according to Thomson Reuters analysts.
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Grizzlies in the Lower 48 states number fewer than 2,000 bears, compared to an historic high of 100,000 before extermination campaigns brought their numbers to just several hundred by 1975, when they came under the Endangered Species Act.
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The Trump administration can disturb human remains, desecrate sacred sites, destroy wildlife habitat, foul air and water, and bring new development to the second largest tract of wilderness in the lower 48 — and all with near complete impunity.
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Meanwhile, monthly gross natural gas production in the lower 48 U.S. states fell to 100.0 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in May from a record high of 100.5 bcfd in April, according to the EIA's 914 report.
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Over the next few days, more than 2650 % of the lower 48's population will see temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, CNN meteorologist Dave He nnen said, and more than half will see temperatures higher than 95 degrees.
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Why it matters: Cantwell's comments come amid questions about how much oil companies will be willing to spend money on Arctic exploration if prices remain modest and amid opportunities for lower cost production in the lower-48 states.
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Production in the lower 48 states excluding federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, most of it from shale plays, is predicted to rise by 900,000 b/d next year down from 1.4 million b/d in 2018.
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Since grizzlies in the lower 48 were added to the endangered and threatened species list in 1975, the number in the Yellowstone region increased from 136 animals to an estimated 700 to 1,000 today, according to government researchers.
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"That range would not be enough to reach the lower 48 states or the large islands of Hawaii, but would allow it to reach all of Alaska," wrote David Wright, co-director of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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In the first hunting season in more than 40 years for the lower 48 states, the state of Wyoming planned to allow 22 bears to be killed this year, and Idaho planned to allow hunters to kill one.
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That's the estimated number of people spared an early death in the Lower 48 states between 2005 and 2016 because 138 pollution-spewing coal plants were shut down, according to new research published Monday in the journal Nature.
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U.S. gross natural gas production in the lower 48 states rose to a high of 89.9 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in May from the prior record of 89.2 bcfd in April, according to the EIA report.
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Two subsequent launches of long-range Hwasong-14 missiles in July demonstrated that North Korea has joined the small club of countries capable of hitting not only Alaska and Hawaii, but also the Lower 48 with a nuclear warhead.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's JERA Co, the world's biggest importer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), on Thursday said it made its first-ever purchase of LNG from the lower 48 U.S. states, as part of its goal to diversify supplies.
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His new home was about as far from the South as Mr. Hood could get without leaving the Lower 48, and the plan was to stop writing so much music about the issues he had obsessed over for decades.
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This spring the federal government announced that it was reviewing the status of Canis lupus in the Lower 48 and, by year's end, could issue a proposal to revise the wolf's status, possibly to reduce protection for the animal.
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The lynx is not considered imperiled in Alaska or Canada, where it ranges widely in forest areas, but its population in the Lower 48 states is believed to be small, though actual numbers are unknown, according to government scientists.
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According to an email that Amazon sent to sellers of books, CDs and DVDs, distributors to the lower 48 states will have to deliver items within a window of four to eight days, down from four to 14 days.
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This is the third-straight year in which every state across the lower 48 states has had an above-average annual temperature, said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina.
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And as the matriarch of the Alaskan Bush People family enters treatment, the clan of nine prepares to pack up their homestead in the Alaskan wilderness and relocate to the "Lower 48" states, where Ami can get the care she needs.
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U.S. natural gas production in the lower 48 states dipped by 1.4 percent to 86 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in January, though that still represented a 9.9 percent increase from a year ago, according to EIA's monthly production report.
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"I think she has a particular viewpoint on the types of people that make up the United States of America, because there are different kinds of people outside of the lower 48 that also contribute to America's success," Kruse said.
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Meanwhile, monthly gross natural gas production in the Lower 48 U.S. states rose to a fresh record high 99.3 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in March from the prior high of 99.1 bcfd in February, according to the report.
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As consumers cranked up heaters to escape the bitter cold, gas demand in the Lower 48 U.S. states jumped to a preliminary record high of 145.1 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) on Wednesday, according to financial data provider Refinitiv.
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Gas production in the Lower 48 states was projected to fall to a four-month low of 84.9 bcfd on Thursday due primarily to freeze-offs in the Marcellus and Utica shale in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, according to Refinitiv.
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The number of grizzlies in the greater Yellowstone region has climbed to roughly 700 from 136 in 1975, when the bears in the Lower 48 states were formally listed as threatened after being hunted, trapped and poisoned to near-extinction.
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Though significant swaths of the Lower 48 states experienced either normal or cooler-than-average temperatures (particularly the Northwest and large portions of the Plains), twice as many daily warm records were set as cold records in the contiguous states.
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Onshore production from the Lower 48 states excluding federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico was up 2001 million bpd year-on-year in the first quarter, down from an increase of 1.817 million bpd in the third quarter of 2018.
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Production from the Lower 48 states excluding the Gulf of Mexico, much of it from shale formations, has surged from 6.6 million barrels per day (bpd) in January 2017 to 7.0 million bpd in June and 7.7 million bpd in October.
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A 2009 study found that the record highs to lows ratio was 2-to-1 for the lower 48 states during the 2000s, and this disparity has only grown since then, though not evenly across every part of the country.
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"Nearly two-thirds of the Lower 48 states face an elevated risk for flooding through May, with the potential for major or moderate flooding in 25 states," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its spring outlook report issued Thursday.
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Natural gas output in the Lower 48 states, meanwhile, has increased every day since touching a seven-week low of 87.8 billion cfd on July 11 because of Barry, rising to 88.3 billion cfd on Monday, according to data provider Refinitiv.
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U.S. natural gas production in the lower 48 states rose to a new all-time high of 86.3 billion cubic feet per day in November, up from the prior record of 84.0 bcfd in October, according to EIA's 914 production report.
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It only went about 600 miles, but its exaggeratedly high arc showed enough inherent energy for it to travel about 4,85033 miles with a normal trajectory, enough to reach targets in Alaska, but not (yet, at least) the Lower 48.
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The U.S. military and its allies have only limited options to avert such an attack after a missile has been launched, even if the target is considerably closer to North Korea than the lower 48 states, like Japan, Hawaii or bases in Guam.
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Washington is home to the most glaciers of the lower 48 states, and so every year, droves of people flock here in the hopes of summiting the 14,323-foot-tall Mount Rainier, or Mount Baker, which looms close to the Canadian border.
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Why it matters: After a relatively mild start to the winter, parts of the Lower 48 states are about to experience a brutal second half to the season, with air temperatures dipping below 0°F as soon as this weekend in the Midwest.
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The agency used a similar methodology for Yellowstone-area bears, with U.S. wildlife managers delisting them without assessing impacts on other grizzly populations in the Lower 48 states, said Kelly Nokes, large carnivore advocate for WildEarth Guardians, which is challenging the delisting.
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"Obviously it's very exciting news, but I think it underscores the fact that Alaska needs to provide some type of incentive" to explore for oil and gas, Moriarty said, citing the higher production costs of operating in Alaska versus the Lower 48.
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Over the next few days, more than 85% of the lower 48's population will see temperatures above 90°F (32.2°C), according to CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen, and more than half will see temperatures in excess of 95°F (35°C).
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A noteworthy weather pattern will evolve next week across the lower 48 states, featuring a massive and intense area of high pressure sprawled out across the center of the country, like an annoying partner taking up the entire bed while snoring loudly.
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Meanwhile, natural gas production in the lower 48 U.S. states rose to an all-time high of 92.7 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in July, up from the prior record of 90.9 bcfd in June, according to EIA's 914 production report.
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Meanwhile, gross natural gas production in the lower 48 U.S. states rose to an all-time high of 96.7 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in October, up from the prior record of 96.0 bcfd in September, according to EIA's 914 production report.
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With oil production in the Lower 48 projected to decline in the coming decades, America needs new supplies of energy to avoid risking renewed dependence on foreign oil – and to keep an indispensable and peaceful force multiplier in our foreign policy toolkit.
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"By delisting the Greater Yellowstone grizzly without analyzing how delisting would affect the remaining members of the lower-48 grizzly designation, the Service failed to consider how reduced protections in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem would impact the other grizzly populations," the judge wrote.
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Meanwhile, monthly gross natural gas production in the lower 48 U.S. states rose to a fresh record high 100.27 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in April from the prior high of 99.46 bcfd in March, according to the EIA's 914 report.
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But aboveground, the many Tethers have joined hands together in a mirror of Hands Across America, the 1986 event meant to raise money and awareness of hunger, which stretched a 6.5 million-person chain (almost all the way) across the Lower 48.
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"It has been extremely important for Alaska senators for a very long time, and they have always been exasperated by the Lower 48 dictating to them on this," Mr. McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and majority leader, said of the Arctic drilling issue.
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When it became clear that Klondike Gold Rush would not be among the few sites allowed to close, and would continue hiring seasonal workers from the Lower 48 to come to Skagway for the spring and summer rush of visitors, Stone snapped.
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Or trying to tell other people that they were OK. Over the next 48 to 72 hours, it just swelled into this enormous collaborative project where you had ham radio operators who were helping to pass messages down to the lower 48.
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The rusty-patched bumblebee, once common across the continental United States, has been designated an endangered species by the Fish and Wildlife Service: the country's first bumblebee, and the first bee from the lower 48 states, to be added to the register.
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Demand in the lower 48 states of the United States will slide to 89.8 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) next week from 91.6 bcfd this week as power generators burn less gas to keep air conditioners running, according to projections from data provider Refinitiv.
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"To have an entire state that is a quarter the size, almost, of the Lower 48 [states], 9.33 degrees Fahrenheit above normal for an entire month is extraordinary," said Brian Brettschneider, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, said in an interview.
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Anuel AA's 2016 arrest and incarceration in Puerto Rico on gun charges assuredly make him more in line with trap culture than a lot of those here in the lower 48 spitting fantasy bars about finessing imaginary plug—stereotypically those of Latin American descent.
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The deepest cuts since that time have come in the United States, where the overall forecast for capital investment this year and next in the lower 48 states has been cut in half, falling by $125 billion, he said in a recent note to clients.
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After traveling to "the lower 48" to seek medical treatment for Bill at the end of season 3, the Brown Family starts season 4 continuing to rebuild their family property – which they call Browntown – in rural Alaska, according to a statement released by Discovery Channel.
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On Wednesday, MTA, a cooperatively owned telco with about 30,000 customers, announced the construction of a new 100-terabit-per-second fiber-optic line between North Pole, near Fairbanks, and Alcan Border, where it will connect with Canadian carriers, and ultimately the Lower 48.
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While the pipeline constraints remain, Mexican energy companies have been buying more U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) than any other country since February 2016 when the first U.S. LNG export terminal opened in the lower 48 states at Cheniere Energy Inc's Sabine Pass in Louisiana.
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NOAA's outlook calls for nearly two-thirds of the lower 48 states to face an elevated risk of flooding through May, with the potential for major to moderate flooding in 25 states across the Great Plains, Midwest and down through the Mississippi River valley.
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"The way that the lower 48 relies on, say, citrus or grapes or the potato as garden food sources, the Bering Sea, when the sea ice comes, it is our garden," Mellisa Johnson, member of the Bering Sea Elders Group, told the New York Times.
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Meanwhile, gross natural gas production in the Lower 48 U.S. states fell for the first time in a year, sliding to 98.12 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in January from a record high 98.29 bcfd in December, according to the EIA's 16.143 production report.
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But the White House can attempt to boost activity on government land, and there are three areas where oil and gas production is prohibited or limited: the waters of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and parts of the Lower 48 states.
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DRIGGS, Idaho (Reuters) - Hyrum Johnson, mayor of the tiny city of Driggs, Idaho, expects some craziness in his one-stoplight town next month when the moon passes in front of the sun for the first total solar eclipse in the lower 48 U.S. states since 1979.
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The Alaska Canada Overland Network from co-op telecom MTA will directly connect the northern state to the lower 48, as the name suggests, over land for the first time, improving connections statewide with a 100-terabit connection that could grow as better tech empowers the fiber.
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Less certain is the status of some two million miles of headwaters and streams that flow only part of the year — 60% of the river and stream miles in the lower 48 states — plus 20 million acres of wetlands that aren't directly connected to large waterways.
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"By delisting the Greater Yellowstone grizzly without analyzing how delisting would affect the remaining members of the lower-48 grizzly designation, the Service failed to consider how reduced protections in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem would impact the other grizzly populations," Judge Dana Christensen wrote in his order.
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The growth in East Texas could be a strategic choice as demand for natural gas is rising given the start of liquefied natural gas exports from the lower 48 U.S. states earlier this year, according to Sandy Fielden, director of oil and products research for Morningstar.
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The last ICBM test, conducted on July 28, demonstrated that the missile had the potential to reach the lower 48 states of the United States, prompting President Trump to threaten to rain down "fire and fury" on the North if the country did not stand down.
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He gets emails from photographers and filmmakers from "the lower 48 or Europe" asking for help in connecting to native villages in Alaska and "looking for names of people, travel info, anything I can give them — always with no promise of pay or job," he said.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has now begun the process of delisting the only other large population of grizzly bears in the Lower 48, in the Northern Continental Divide Grizzly Bear Ecosystem, in and around Glacier National Park, where some 800 bears are believed to roam.
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In some cases this involves reconfiguration to adapt to lighter crudes produced in the Lower 48 states, expanded capacity to refine heavier crudes being brought from Canada in the Keystone pipeline system and demand in a growing U.S. economy for consumer products made from petroleum derivatives.
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The United States, which was a net importer of LNG before shipping its first cargo from the lower 48 states in February 8.53, is expected to become the third biggest exporter of the super-cooled fuel by capacity by the end of 2019, behind Australia and Qatar.
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"We dug deep, tried to explain it to some people, and it just was hard for people to grasp what we were talking about because most Americans in the Lower 48 didn't have any idea about what was going on in Alaska," she elaborated to Vox's Ezra Klein.
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The estimated tally of grizzlies in the greater Yellowstone region, encompassing parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, has grown to a 20073 or more today, up from as few as 136 bears in 1975 when they were formally listed as a threatened species throughout the Lower 48 states.
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Despite winning a Great American Beer Festival gold medal for their Smoked Märzen in 2015, you won't find these beers on shelves in the lower 48, which is all the more reason to make the pilgrimage to the last frontier and taste these brews fresh from the source.
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We dug deep, we tried to explain it to some people, and it just was hard for people to grasp what we were talking about because most Americans in the Lower 48, as we like to say, didn't have any idea about what was going on in Alaska.
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Meanwhile, gross natural gas production in the Lower 48 states rose for an 11th month in a row to an all-time high of 98.0 billion cubic feet per day in December, up from the prior record of 97.9 bcfd in November, according to the EIA's 20173 production report.
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A large number of interesting companies call the lower half of the Lower 48 home, and as the cost of living continues to rise on the east and west coasts, don't be surprised if many current and would-be founders opt to stay down home in the South.
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In the lower 48 United States, the period between May and July ranked as the hottest ever, according to NOAA, with an average temperature of 70.9 degrees Fahrenheit (21.6 degrees Celsius) which was 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit (1.9 Celsius) above average in the period since record-keeping began in 3.43.
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While the first cargoes from the lower 48 states have been delayed, the point is that by late February or early March it's likely that Cheniere Energy Partners will join the global LNG supply boom with exports from the first train of six planned at its Sabine Pass project.
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"We should end up being the coldest location tonight in the lower 48," said Mike Carmon, senior meteorologist at the Mount Washington Observatory, who was one of a handful of scientists and others huddled at the top of one of the most dangerous and forbidding places in the country.
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In Alaska, due to a series of restrictions passed more than 40 years ago, it's almost impossible for women to get a second-trimester abortion without traveling out of state — which, given the state's geography, is a lot more difficult for Alaskans than for Americans living in the lower 48 states.
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The ESA has had some notable successes since its passage more than 40 years ago, as bald eagles and peregrine falcons, once rare in the lower 48 states, are fully recovered and species like the California condor and black-footed ferret have been brought back from the brink of extinction.
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Go deeper: The polar vortex is about to split into 3 pieces Polar vortex splits, sending frigid air howling into the U.S., Europe The bottom line: It's going to get unusually cold across a large swath of the Lower 48 states during the next week, and the cold will not let up quickly.
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Weather It's going to be a hot time in the city and across much of the country this weekend, as a dangerous heat wave threatens much of the continental US. More than 85% of the lower 48's population will see temps above 90 degrees Fahrenheit over the next couple of days.
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In December, Congress ended a 40-year ban on the export of most crude oil produced in the lower 48 states, a move that came as the industry is booming, helped by new methods of blasting through hard rocks with water, sand and chemicals that have opened up areas for oil exploration.
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"To us, it's normal, but when I sit and think about it, you know, I don't think that most kids in the lower 48 carry a 12-gauge [shotgun] to go to the bathroom," Billy Brown, the 64-year-old patriarch of the Brown family says in an Alaskan Bush People clip exclusive to PEOPLE.
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In the US, gray wolves used to roam widely, with numbers reaching into the hundreds of thousands, according to the Humane Society of the US. But they were slaughtered, and their numbers declined so sharply in the lower 48 states that wolves were among the first species added to the Endangered Species list in 1974.
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But for reasons ranging from a more complex regulatory regime to shorter exploration seasons, offshore Arctic oil and gas development takes longer than elsewhere in the U.S. – at least ten years – so the process has to start now in order for Arctic resources to be available when production in the Lower 48 begins to fall.
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"Geographically speaking, I'd say about half of the lower 48 states are under some sort of weather alert," said Alex Lamers, a meteorologist with Weather Prediction Center, in College Park, Md. Meanwhile, much of the East Coast is expected to have unusually warm weather this weekend, with temperatures of up to 30 degrees above average.
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Despite the slightly cooler outlook, the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) continued to forecast temperatures in the Lower 48 U.S. states would switch from colder than normal in the eastern half of the country over the next six to 10 days to warmer than normal across the whole country during the eight to 14 day period.
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"You have the threat that a high enough price will start to activate the 7,0003 drilled but uncompleted wells in the lower 48 states," said Walter Zimmerman, chief technical analyst at ICAP TA. "And meanwhile, if Iranian crude is really taken off the water, its going to impact Brent much more than its going to impact WTI," Zimmerman said.
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IRBMs typically have a range of 1553,000 to 5,500 kilometers (1,864 to 3,417 miles) -- much farther than needed to hit South Korea, but not long enough to hit the lower 48 states (though Guam is in its range.) Abductions and conquerors Japan and North Korea do not have active diplomatic relations, but there has been progress to normalize them in recent years.
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With the weather expected to warm next week, data provider Refinitiv projected demand in the lower 48 U.S. states would rise from an average of 90.5 bcfd this week to 91.6 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) next week as more gas flows to LNG export terminals and power generators burn more of the fuel to meet rising air-conditioning use.
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Bald eagle Current status: Removed from the threatened and endangered species list in 19703 Estimated population: 70,000 including Alaska and Canada Found in: The lower 48 states, Alaska and Canada The bald eagle has been the US' national symbol since 1782, but only an estimated 480 nesting pairs remained in the 1960s, decimated by illegal hunting and poisoning from the insecticide DDT.
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"The way that the lower 48 relies on, say, citrus or grapes or the potato as garden food sources, the Bering Sea, when the sea ice comes, it is our garden," said Mellisa Johnson, a guest editor on the report and a member of the Bering Sea Elders Group, which is made up of 38 tribal elders from the region.
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Here's Morgan Stanley (emphasis ours): A quick end does not appear to be in sight either: OPEC continues to produce "at will," Iran could increase exports in coming months if sanctions are eased, risk to exports from Libya are skewed to the upside, and the end of the export ban in the US makes elevated inventories in the Lower 48 available globally.
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The system was pitched as one that would provide service in Alaska and connect it to the lower 48 states, authorities said....Between May 2015 and July 2017, Ms. Pierce provided the two New York investment companies with forged broadband capacity sales contracts totaling about $1 billion to persuade them to invest in the fiber-optic system, according to a complaint unsealed Thursday in Manhattan federal court.
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Gray wolf Current status: Endangered in most of the US Estimated population: Between 7,000 and 11,000 in Alaska, 3,19923 in the Great Lakes region and 1,700 in the northern Rockies Found in: Alaska, the Great Lakes, the northern Rockies, the Pacific Northwest and Canada They once prowled a northern range from coast to coast, but gray wolves were nearly driven to extinction in the lower 48 states due to declines in their prey populations and frequent conflict with farmers and ranchers, whose livestock are an easy target for hungry wolves.
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