How to Use emission in a Sentence

emission

noun
  • To date, the sales of these refills has saved more than 79 tons of carbon emissions.
    Hannah Coates, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Lululemon spokesperson said the company has made some progress toward its emissions goals but still has a ways to go.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 17 July 2024
  • That’s turning school pick-up lines into a hellscape of idling cars and SUVs spewing their own emissions onto the sidewalk, where the kids wait for their parents.
    Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Of course, that may sound like a transparent play to influence emissions restrictions toward the interests of, at the least, the VW Group.
    Hazel Southwell, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
  • One quandary is how companies should measure their emissions and climate risk.
    Steven Mufson, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • Some researchers say the report, in effect, suggests that pastoralism is part of the emissions problem.
    Michael Benanav, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Adrienne Johnston That goes beyond just reducing the emissions from processing limestone to just 1.5%.
    New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2024

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