Definition of fossil fuel
: a fuel (such as coal, oil, or natural gas) formed in the earth from plant or animal remains
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Examples of fossil fuel in a Sentence
oil and other fossil fuels
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The measure was intended be revenue neutral, cutting some taxes while raising taxes on fossil fuels that generate emissions.
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The lawsuit aimed to hold the fossil fuel giants financially responsible for damage caused by climate change and sea level rise.
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The consequences of even cheaper renewables will therefore be dire for fossil fuels: coal is projected to decline to only 11 percent of global electricity generation, down from 38 percent today.
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The Kochs are motivated by a mixture of ideology (public transit is socialistic) and self-interest (they are heavily invested in fossil fuel extraction and automobile production).
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Scientists attribute the sea-level rise to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and Arctic sea ice loss as the climate changes, mostly due to fossil fuel burning.
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If the world keeps fossil fuel emissions low, like the standards decided upon in the Paris Agreement, and ice melt is kept to a minimum, most sea rise damage could be averted.
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The conservative group is linked to fossil fuel billionaires David and Charles Koch.
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That electricity supplements the store’s core power system from We Energies, reducing the usage of power made with fossil fuels.
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: a fuel (such as coal, oil, or natural gas) that is formed in the earth from dead plants or animals
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