Example Sentences

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In 2022, an investigation by The Associated Press showed 533 oil and gas facilities in the region were emitting excessive amounts of methane.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2024

The use of "defeat devices" meant that Volkswagen's cars were certified as conforming to EU pollution standards when, in reality, they were emitting up to 40 times the legally permitted amount of nitrogen dioxide.

From BBC • May 25, 2022

Maryland and Virginia found that more than half the surveyed stores were emitting HFCs.

From Washington Post • May 3, 2021

The scientists claimed that the artist’s sculptures were emitting formaldehyde at dangerous levels, and later published their findings in a scientific journal.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018

Further encouragement for the existence of black holes came in 1967 with the discovery by a research student at Cambridge, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, of objects in the sky that were emitting regular pulses of radio waves.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking