Oil and gas systems are producing more climate pollution even as other U.S. economic sectors decarbonize.
That’s the takeaway from EPA’s 2023 emissions data released Tuesday, which tracks pollution from 8,100 of the country’s largest industrial sources.
The data, which companies are required to report to EPA annually, shows that from 2022 to 2023 the power sector shed 7.2 percent of its planet-warming pollution. U.S. power generation emitted approximately one-third less greenhouse gas pollution last year, EPA said, than in 2011, “reflecting the long-term shifts in power sector fuel-stock from coal to natural gas.”
Industrial and waste sectors also trimmed pollution by a little more than 1 percent, the data showed, or more than 10 percent compared with 2011.
