How to Use emission in a Sentence
emission
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Since then, 2,570 of the zero-emission beasts have rolled off the line.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2022
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To date, the sales of these refills has saved more than 79 tons of carbon emissions.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2024
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The ship, which will be based outside of the US, will also be one of the first fueled by low-emission green ethanol.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2022
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And the brand claims that its emission levels are less than .01 ppm, which is under the .05 ppm threshold.
—Brittany Vanderbill, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2022
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This idea that carbon emissions drives all the climate change.
—Stefan Becket, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
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The new rule lowers the emissions standard for mercury from these plants by 70%.
—Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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That's about four times the total emissions of the transportation sector as of 2021.
—Kelly Livingston, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2024
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The goal: to try and set the standards for how the industry will get to its goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2024
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Since 2005, most U.S. states have witnessed a decline in these emissions.
—Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2023
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At a time when the world needs to be reducing emissions, the numbers continue to climb.
—Hannah Ritchie, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2024
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Low-emission car registrations have more than doubled in five years, but gas and diesel still rule the road — and the sales stats.
—Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 June 2022
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Maryland can be the catalyst in emission-free energy, and be the one to shine.
—Patrick Cusack, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
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The team is not sure why the emission, known as outflow, was delayed by several years.
—Ariana Garcia, Chron, 14 Oct. 2022
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However, much more than that will be needed for the world to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
—Matthias Mueller, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2023
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This emissions reduction would still lead to a loss of 15 percent of the Tibetan plateau’s snowpack by the end of the century.
—WIRED, 23 Oct. 2023
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But, if things shift to the highest emissions scenario, the Arctic could be ice-free for up to nine months late this century.
—Simrin Singh, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
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Even if humans turned off the CO2 spigot today, the emissions already in the system would continue to warm the world for decades.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 21 July 2023
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Petermann Glacier is, in the context of climate change, the next big thing that our greenhouse gas emissions may break.
—Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
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Rather, Harrison argues, the aim is to buy time while countries bring emissions down.
—Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
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State of play: One of the biggest fights is over Initiative 2117, which would repeal the state's cap-and-trade law that places a price on carbon emissions.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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But the emission of the voice in Gal was already music, independently of the conscious mastery of the notes.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
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Some Prius owners have seen the coveted car part, which is used to control emissions, stolen two, three or even four times.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
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Private jet flights and emissions have soared in Europe since the pandemic.
—Julia Malleck, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2023
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This vehicle is the world's largest zero-emission truck.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
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Adding the African Union doubles the number of countries but only increases the share of emissions to 82 percent.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024
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After three long years of delays due to emission standards the Emira made its stateside last month.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
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And yet, global greenhouse gas emissions continued to grow over the past year, the new UNEP report says.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2023
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Comparing this emission pattern to the emissions from lighter quarks and from gluons revealed the dead cone in the charm quark’s emissions.
—Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2022
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With clean electricity, the process could make steel with zero CO2 emissions.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 13 Mar. 2025
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Zeldin is expected to take steps to undo a key scientific finding from 2009 that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health.
—Valerie Volcovici, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
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