emissions

Example Sentences

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Compared with water use, microplastic emissions contributed a much smaller share of overall ecosystem damage.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

The country has set an ambitious target of doubling its clean energy supply by 2035, and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2060.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

Amazon’s critics often focus on the emissions from delivery trucks while ignoring the individual shopping trips those deliveries may replace.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Doing away with oil, it can reduce by 90 percent planet warming emissions from aviation -- itself responsible for up to four percent of all greenhouse gases released in the European Union -- proponents say.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

Their counter clicked; there were emissions just above the background level of radioactivity, but that was enough.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik