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How to use the word Fossil in a Sentence? Page #2

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When they make bad decisions about the federal fossil fuel program and where those decisions are illegal, we're going to go to court, we're of the view that everybody needs to follow the law and part of following the law is following the science.

Drew Caputo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No one is suggesting that fossil fuel jobs -- that the fossil fuel industry is going to be completely eliminated, even as the globe is transitioning to clean energy.

Jennifer Granholm

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Any country, be it India, be it Germany, be it the United States, if they double down on any kind of fossil fuel it will eat up the carbon budget. That's a global problem.

United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Germany starting to backtrack and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz looking at doing a new deal with Senegal on gas supply. That's a worrying sign for the G7 unity in May for shifting out of fossil fuels, what's happening in Germany at the moment is sending the wrong message.

Alex Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fossil fuels are driving the extinction crisis, and the Bureau of Land Management is making things worse by failing to protect these imperiled species.

Brett Hartl

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Climate change is harming, and will continue to harm, Black, Indigenous, and people of color and other vulnerable communities first and worst -- disrupting their livelihoods, culture, health, and way of life, even though the economic toll of climate change, estimated between $ 300 billion and $ 500 billion globally, is on par with government subsidies for fossil fuels, calls for solutions have gone unheard.

Russell Armstrong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When it comes to the gas prices, we're going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it's over we'll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So far, the government seems to be walking a line of maintaining friendly relationships with Russia without encouraging or directing Chinese firms to increase business with the country, and discouraging anything that might run afoul of the sanctions imposed on China, this line does mean that China's imports from Russia are likely to grow simply on market basis, as other buyers move to embargo Russian fossil fuels.

Lauri Myllyvirta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm voting for a climate candidate because the big parties are under the thumb of the fossil fuel companies. There's no sense at all of the urgent need to take action.

Jo Dyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is a chain of assumptions the authors accept in order to confirm that this is a Denisovan fossil, the reality is that we can not know whether this single and badly preserved molar belonged indeed to a Denisovan, a hybrid or even an unknown hominin group. It might well be a Denisovan, and I would love it to be a Denisovan, because how cool would that be ? But more confident evidence is needed.

Katerina Douka

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The fossil record gives us a window into the details of a global-scale hazard and the reaction of Earth's biota to that hazard, it gives us... a crystal ball looking back in time and enables us to apply that to today's ecological and environmental crisis.

Robert DePalma

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Climate Change is not just a problem 70 years from now ; Climate Change is here and Climate Change's impacting our weather on a day-to-day basis, we need to adapt and make our systems more resilient, but we have to use this as a sense to inform decision-making about how to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels that produce these greenhouse gases.

Kevin Reed

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[ The plan ] will be central to weaning Britain off expensive fossil fuels, which are subject to volatile gas prices set by international markets we are unable to control.

The UK government

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When that went viral, my initial read was that The Rock probably had a replica skull. That said, The Rock is as plausible a buyer for the Stan fossil as any. He’s got the wealth to be able to make that purchase, at least it seems to from the outside looking in, and there’s a little bit of a track record from Hollywood celebrities expressing interest in fossil auctions. It’s the sort of thing where I was skeptical he had it but there was a possibility.

Michael Greshko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That’s easier to understand, do you think people should die because they can’t afford insulin? Do you think that fossil fuel CEOs should decide whether the planet gets set on fire? Me neither.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we do what we can, United States will mean that no one has to worry about the price at the gas pump in the future, that'll mean tyrants like Vladimir Putin won't be able to use fossil fuels as weapons against other nations.

President Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The bottom line is the production of fossil fuels right now, wind and solar( are) not going to put natural gas over there. We can build a pipeline in two to six months. Basically, the administration needs to step up and help us on that.

Joe Manchin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Keystone is emblematic of just the punishment this administration has doled out to the energy industry at large, this example of how this administration has punished the fossil fuel industry, punished the infrastructure, and it has also then scared off a lot of investment … This government is making it impossible to bring things to fruition.

Daniel Turner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The cleanest, healthiest, most prosperous nations on earth are the ones with the most robust fossil fuel industry, and green energy does not replace fossil fuels, it just uses them in a different way. People who do not understand this are either ignorant or have an agenda. The ignorance can be educated, and that is what my organization tries to do. Those with an agenda or a threat to our economy and our national security … they need to be held accountable.

Daniel Turner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is unnecessary, we don't have to sacrifice. We can still have the ideals that people should be free and should not be invaded while producing our own fossil fuels and driving the cost down for us.

Scott Perry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And when you do that, somebody like Vladimir Putin, who's got an economy that is 40-50%, driven by fossil fuels, it raises the amount of money he's making, so it makes it affordable for somebody — some autocrat — to do what he's doing. So that's number one, the Biden energy policies have facilitated what's happening in Ukraine right now.

Scott Perry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We need to see the White House and climate champions in Congress really make the case for investing in renewables at home now, as an answer to the fossil fuel fluctuations we see every decade, basically, what we're seeing now that we're facing inflation is just how important those climate investments are in driving down energy costs.

Christy Goldfuss

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Since we get fossil fuels from the earth, there's a lot of other components other than just the carbons, there's critical minerals like cobalt and nickel, and there's also rare earth elements.

Jennifer Wilcox

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Absolutely in regions where there's been legacy fossil production, but also looking at these for an opportunity for these communities to transition.

Jennifer Wilcox

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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