Industry groups mixed as EPA releases 2013 GHG emissions inventory

Oil and Gas Journal: Greenhouse gas emissions from more than 8,000 large US industrial sources totaled 3.18 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2013, about half of total domestic GHG emissions, the US Environmental Protection Agency said in its fourth annual GHG inventory.

The amount was 20 million tonnes, or 0.6%, more than 2012’s total, driven largely by increased use of coal for power generation, EPA said in the Sept. 30 report. Power plants remained the largest single industrial source of GHGs, with more than 1,550 emitting more than 2 billion CO2 equivalent tonnes, 13 million more than in 2012 and roughly 32% of the US total

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