Graphics Of The Day: USEPA Submits Latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory To IPCC
by John Laumer, Philadelphia 
on 04.17.08
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has updated the national greenhouse gas inventory through reporting year 2006 ( U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2006), reporting that overall emissions during 2006 decreased by 1.1 percent from the previous year. Emissions grew 14.7 percent from 1990 to 2006. The decrease in 2006 emissions was due principally to a warmer winter, a cooler summer, less driving due to increased fuel costs, and use of more natural gas and renewables in the electric power sector.
Look at the energy sector categories that we so seldom consider. Plenty of fresh targets for cutbacks. Coal mining...who'd have thought?
Look also at the land use/forestry related trends.
Via::Power Engineering, "EPA says CO2 emissions declined in 2006"
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Interesting to see no decrease shown from the amount of production jobs sent overseas which of course, would appear as an increase in emissions from other countries with less strict environmental policy.
Difficult to believe that while our overall energy needs are growing rapidly and only 1% of US energy production comes from renewable sources, that small sector while yes it is increasing, is apparently enough to make a noticeable dent in overall emissions...
This is just the sort of report data on emissions that the powers that be would like to to show the American public to foster the belief that there is no true sense of urgency and that we must be already doing something to address the emission problems.
What's really shocking to me is the growth in CO2 output since 1990.