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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The team is not sure why the emission, known as outflow, was delayed by several years.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 14 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The result, the band claimed, would reduce carbon emissions by some 85% and avoid the creation of 25 metric tonnes of virgin plastic.
    — Jordan Bassett, SPIN, 1 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • But cutting back on the emission of greenhouse gasses could also help with global warming.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Scientists see them as a climate solution because heat pumps reduce planet-heating emissions.
    — Julia Simon, NPR, 25 Dec. 2024

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