Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States: Department of Energy Report and Database

The Energy Information Administration (EIA), the independent and statistical agency of the Department of Energy (DOE), provided estimates of U.S. emissions of the principal greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), halocarbons (CFCs, HCFCs), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and non-methane volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The report of greenhouse gas emission was mandated by the U.S. Congress through section 1605(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (Title XVI).

The report contains many tables and statistics regarding U.S. greenhouse gas emissions including: carbon emissions from energy consumption, energy production, industrial sources, and energy-related carbon emissions (such as from petroleum, coal and natural gas); methane emissions from energy production and use, combustion, landfills, agricultural sources (including domesticated and wild animals and wetland rice cultivation); nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen fertilizer use, fossil fuel combustion, adipic acid production, nitric acid production, and waste sources; CFC production; criteria pollutants (carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds).