accounting for roughly 34 percent of the industry's total GHG emissions. Coming in second place was the production of hydrogen, which generated approximately 41.36 MtCO2eq or 22.2 percent of the GHG emissions from the chemical industry in the U.S.
In 2021, the production of petrochemicals in the United States resulted in the emission of some 63.39 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2eq) worth of greenhouse gases (GHG). This was the segment within the U.S. chemical industry that contributed the most to GHG emissions that year, Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the chemical industry in the United States in 2021, by segment (in million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent)
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Environmental Protection Agency. "Greenhouse Gas (Ghg) Emissions from The Chemical Industry in The United States in 2021, by Segment (in Million Metric Tons of Co₂ Equivalent)." Statista, Statista Inc., 17 Oct 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1323327/chemical-industry-ghg-emissions-by-segment-united-states/
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