emissions

Example Sentences

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CREW’s business plan is to make extra revenue by selling carbon credits to companies that are seeking to offset their emissions, charging hundreds of dollars per ton of CO2 removed from a wastewater plant.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Researchers estimate that this cooling is more than 10 times greater than it would have been without human generated CO2 emissions.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

There is an additional problem, too: Taxes on gasoline are supposed to charge drivers for some of the costs their driving imposes on everyone else – carbon emissions, local air pollution, congestion and crashes.

From Salon • May 13, 2026

On Tuesday, Guterres noted that Africa contributes relatively little to global emissions but suffers disproportionately from climate change, including droughts, floods and food insecurity.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

The study concluded that the effect on Americans of radioactive emissions from nuclear tests was vastly outweighed by their exposure to diagnostic X-rays and other common sources.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik