fossil

Example Sentences

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She has managed to amass about $30,000 after around six years of investing in a fund that excludes fossil fuel companies.

From The Wall Street Journal

However, as oil production declines and fossil fuel companies increasingly become insolvent, California regulators worry taxpayers may have to assume the costs to plug these wells.

From Los Angeles Times

Researchers in Costa Rica have unearthed fossils from a mastodon and a giant sloth that lived as many as 40,000 years ago, officials announced Friday, calling it the biggest such find here in decades.

From Barron's

Still, some automakers and trade groups supported the EPA’s decision, as did fossil fuel industry groups and those geared toward free markets and regulatory reform.

From Los Angeles Times

“State-level mandates limit how much utilities can revert to long-term fossil dependence, even if federal authority is reduced.”

From Barron's