How to Use emission in a Sentence
emission
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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 -
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 -
This idea that carbon emissions drives all the climate change.
— Stefan Becket, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024 -
The new rule lowers the emissions standard for mercury from these plants by 70%.
— Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation, 1 May 2024 -
That's about four times the total emissions of the transportation sector as of 2021.
— Kelly Livingston, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2024 -
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 -
Since 2005, most U.S. states have witnessed a decline in these emissions.
— Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2023 -
At a time when the world needs to be reducing emissions, the numbers continue to climb.
— Hannah Ritchie, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Rather, Harrison argues, the aim is to buy time while countries bring emissions down.
— Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Private jet flights and emissions have soared in Europe since the pandemic.
— Julia Malleck, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2023 -
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 -
After three long years of delays due to emission standards the Emira made its stateside last month.
— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024 -
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 -
La Niña should cool things a bit, but greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming are still rising in the background.
— Pedro Dinezio, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2024 -
The general aviation airports where the planes take off and land are some of the biggest producers of lead emissions in the country.
— Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2024 -
On the beef-pork-poultry axis of meat, poultry has the lowest greenhouse gas emission levels.
— Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022 -
One source told the Guardian that diplomatic efforts are being made to urge Turkmenistan to cut its methane emissions.
— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 May 2023 -
Buzz has been building for more than a decade over SAF’s potential to reduce emissions from air travel.
— Jenni Reid, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2024 -
The researchers also found that the fires spread more quickly because of drought and heat amplified by greenhouse gas emissions.
— Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2023 -
President Joe Biden has set a goal that up to half of all new vehicle sales be electric by 2030 to cut emissions and fight climate change.
— Tom Krisher, Matthew Daly and Hannah Fingerhut, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023 -
Gates himself has not yet commented on the rumors but has previously spoken about the importance of reducing methane emissions as part of a climate strategy.
— Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024 -
Primark claims to be making efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions but acknowledges that 97.5 percent of its overall carbon footprint comes from the activities of its suppliers.
— Geoff Colvin, Fortune Europe, 28 Nov. 2024
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