GHGRP Chemicals
- 2023 Total Reported Direct Emissions from Chemicals, by Subsector (as of 8/16/2024)
- Trend of Annual Reported GHG Emissions by Subsector (as of 8/16/2024)
- Location and emissions for each reporting facility in the chemicals sector (as of 8/16/2024)
- Number of reporters and emissions in the chemicals sector (as of 8/16/2024)
The chemical manufacturing sector consists of facilities that manufacture organic or inorganic chemicals. For this summary, the sector is broken down into facilities that produce fluorinated chemicals and non-fluorinated chemicals. The non-fluorinated chemicals subsector comprises facilities that produce adipic acid, ammonia, hydrogen (both merchant and non-merchant plants), nitric acid, petrochemicals, phosphoric acid, silicon carbide, titanium dioxide and other non-fluorinated chemicals. The fluorinated chemicals subsector comprises facilities that produce HCFC-22 (or destroy HFC-23) and other fluorinated chemicals. A more detailed description of these subsectors is provided below. A total of 462 chemicals facilities reported in 2023.
2023 Total Reported Direct Emissions from Chemicals, by Subsector (as of 8/16/2024)
Trend of Annual Reported GHG Emissions by Subsector (as of 8/16/2024)
What factors influenced the trends in emissions for non-fluorinated chemicals production?
Location and emissions for each reporting facility in the chemicals sector (as of 8/16/2024)
This map shows the locations of direct-emitting facilities. The size of a circle corresponds to the quantity of emissions reported by that facility.
Number of reporters and emissions in the chemicals sector (as of 8/16/2024)
| Chemicals Sector — Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reported to the GHGRP (all emissions values presented in million metric tons CO2e) |
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| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
| Number of facilities: | 458 | 468 | 473 | 464 | 465 | 456 | 458 | 458 | 455 | 455 | 461 | 462 | 462 |
| Total emissions (CO2e): | 180.4 | 173.0 | 174.6 | 177.1 | 177.1 | 177.1 | 185.0 | 192.3 | 187.2 | 185.3 | 187.3 | 186.2 | 184.8 |
| Emissions by greenhouse gas (CO2e) | |||||||||||||
| • Carbon dioxide (CO2): | 142.5 | 143.2 | 147.0 | 149.4 | 151.3 | 152.6 | 158.3 | 164.3 | 162.9 | 161.1 | 164.2 | 167.8 | 170.7 |
| • Methane (CH4): | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| • Nitrous oxide (N2O): | 21.3 | 16.0 | 14.8 | 16.6 | 16.0 | 17.4 | 17.2 | 20.3 | 15.4 | 18.0 | 16.7 | 12.3 | 10.9 |
| • Fluorinated GHGs: | 16.5 | 13.6 | 12.6 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 6.8 | 9.2 | 7.5 | 8.6 | 5.8 | 6.2 | 5.8 | 2.9 |
| Emissions by subsector | |||||||||||||
| • Non-fluorinated chemicals | 163.1 | 158.6 | 161.2 | 165.4 | 166.8 | 169.6 | 175.0 | 184.1 | 177.9 | 178.7 | 180.7 | 179.8 | 181.2 |
| • Fluorinated chemicals | 17.3 | 14.4 | 13.4 | 11.7 | 10.3 | 7.6 | 9.9 | 8.2 | 9.4 | 6.5 | 6.6 | 6.5 | 3.5 |
Totals may not equal sum of individual GHGs due to independent rounding.