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The 18 large leaks Buckley mentioned fixing account for more than 142,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide prevented from entering the atmosphere, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Tesla sold 497,000 EVs in the third quarter of 2025, marking its second-best performance ever on that metric.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
That added nearly 800,000 additional metric tons a month to global supplies, but not enough to cover the shortfall from the Middle East, which stood at some four million tons last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The personal-consumption expenditures price index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation metric, rose at an annual rate of 3.4% in August, just as it did in July, the Commerce Department said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
One hundred million metric tons of plastic were being produced in the mid.1980s.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing metric
This Week in Pop Culture: December 8 -14, 2018
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Measurement and Data, List 2
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for October 2–October 8, 2021
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