Greenhouse gas emissions continued to rebound in 2022 as the U.S. economy recovered from the coronavirus pandemic, EPA’s annual greenhouse gas inventory reveals.
The economywide tally of emissions and carbon sinks shows that heat-trapping emissions grew by 1.3 percent in 2022 compared with 2021 levels as energy use grew in time with economic growth.
That compares to the 6.4 percent leap in emissions from 2020 to 2021 that EPA reported last year, which reflected a resumption in economic activity after the first year of the pandemic.
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The U.S. is obligated to produce the inventory each year as a condition of its membership in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The reports always lag by two years.
