gas
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Higher prices for a barrel of oil take time to filter down to retail gas prices, but a look at the oil market’s “prompt spread” shows bigger gas bills look likely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
He courted controversy shortly after taking over the association by changing its name, its logo and starting a partnership with Gazprom that turned the state-owned gas giant into the body’s biggest sponsor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Increased pollution from coal and gas plants will cause hundreds of billions of dollars in negative health impacts from asthma, heart and lung disease and premature deaths, among other outcomes, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The power industry is, behind transportation, the second-largest source of planet-warming emissions in the United States and the second-largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the world.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
His face is undecipherable; it’s covered by a green rubber gas mask.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
A decade earlier, in 1988, Sher authored legislation requiring that California take stock of the sources of greenhouse gases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
These volatiles are gases that can separate from magma as pressure changes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Is it possible that our planet is actually more sensitive to greenhouse gases than we imagined?
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The number of messages OpenAI agents sent to resolve the Navier-Stokes problem, a series of mathematical equations that describe how liquids and gases move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Pascal’s explanation is a mechanical explanation, and its oddity is that it extends the scope of mechanical explanations from the artificial world of levers and pulleys to the natural world of gases and liquids.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The gas detected in the atmosphere is helium, which would not be able to support life, but other gasses may also be present.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
We found the defects can make the graphene more "sticky" to other materials, making it more useful as a catalyst, as well as improving its capability of detecting different gasses for use in sensors.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2025
Unlike visible light, radio waves from hot gasses are not blocked that easily by cosmic dust.
From Space Scoop ● Mar. 27, 2025
Scientists have provided strong evidence that the dynamic behind this is an increase of greenhouse gasses from human industry that trap heat, cooking the oceans to extreme levels that cause greater evaporation.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2024
Ash and gasses once more jetted into the sky from Mount St. Helens.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Fitness is next: He looked a little gassed against Zverev, and admitted as much.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Morris’s mother and father, respectively, were an accomplished organist and a mechanic who had been gassed in World War I. Like Waugh, Morris boarded as a teenager at Lancing College in West Sussex, England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
While showing few outward signs of struggling with the foot blisters which troubled him in the quarter-finals, Djokovic regularly looked gassed against Sinner before finding further reserves to win in four hours and nine minutes.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
By the start of the sixth, Snell looked gassed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
I was psyched, I'm talking totally gassed about this.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
Charging may require a bit more time than gassing up, but it’s a chance to catch up on news and email.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Some travelers say they can’t afford not to travel, however, so they’re putting all options on the table — from booking rail tickets to gassing up their cars.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2025
“Everyone is gassing each other up about how fabulous they look,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
Last week, the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights urged a halt to the execution, saying that gassing Smith could amount to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment under international human rights law.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
But Ella's family didn't believe in gassing you up.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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