List of U.S. states by carbon dioxide emissions

This is a list of U.S. states by carbon dioxide emissions due to human activity. The data presented below from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Energy Information Administration corresponds to emissions in 2011.^[1]

CO₂ emission per capita per year per state (2011 data).

Table

Rank	Jurisdiction	Annual CO2 emissions (in millions of metric tons)[2]	Percentage of total emissions	Population (population in 2011)[3]	Percentage of total population	CO2 emissions per capita (in metric tons)
-	States Total	5,384	100.00%	311,587,816	100.00%	17.28
01	Texas	656	12.18%	25,631,778	8.23%	25.59
02	California	364	6.42%	37,683,933	12.09%	9.18
03	Pennsylvania	245	4.55%	12,743,948	4.09%	19.22
04	Ohio	233	4.33%	11,541,007	3.70%	20.19
05	Florida	227	4.22%	19,082,262	6.12%	11.90
06	Illinois	225	4.18%	12,859,752	4.13%	17.50
07	Louisiana	223	4.14%	4,574,766	1.47%	48.75
08	Indiana	207	3.84%	6,516,353	2.09%	31.77
09	New York	158	2.93%	19,501,616	6.26%	8.10
10	Michigan	157	2.92%	9,876,801	3.17%	15.90
11	Georgia	154	2.86%	9,812,460	3.15%	15.69
12	Kentucky	148	2.75%	4,366,814	1.40%	33.89
13	Missouri	133	2.47%	6,008,984	1.93%	22.56
14	Alabama	129	2.40%	4,803,689	1.54%	26.85
15	North Carolina	123	2.28%	9,651,103	3.10%	12.74
16	New Jersey	110	2.04%	8,834,773	2.84%	12.45
17	Oklahoma	107	1.99%	3,784,163	1.21%	28.28
18	Tennessee	103	1.91%	6,399,787	2.05%	16.09
19	Virginia	97	1.80%	8,104,384	2.60%	11.97
20	Wisconsin	96	1.78%	5,709,843	1.83%	16.81
21	West Virginia	96	1.78%	1,854,908	0.60%	51.75
22	Arizona	92	1.70%	6,467,315	2.08%	14.23
23	Minnesota	91	1.69%	5,347,299	1.72%	17.02
24	Colorado	91	1.69%	5,116,302	1.64%	17.98
25	Iowa	84	1.59%	3,064,097	0.98%	28.53
26	South Carolina	78	1.46%	4,673,348	1.50%	17.16
27	Kansas	73	1.32%	2,870,386	0.92%	25.21
28	Washington	69	1.29%	6,823,267	2.19%	10.38
29	Arkansas	67	1.24%	2,938,582	0.94%	22.80
30	Massachusetts	66	1.23%	6,607,003	2.12%	9.99
31	Maryland	64	1.19%	5,839,572	1.87%	10.96
32	Utah	64	1.19%	2,814,347	0.90%	22.74
33	Wyoming	64	1.19%	567,356	0.18%	112.80
34	Mississippi	60	1.11%	2,977,457	0.96%	20.56
35	New Mexico	57	1.03%	2,078,674	0.67%	27.23
36	North Dakota	54	0.92%	684,740	0.22%	73.51
37	Nebraska	52	0.95%	1,842,234	0.59%	28.37
38	Alaska	38	0.69%	723,860	0.23%	52.71
39	Oregon	36	0.68%	3,868,229	1.24%	9.63
40	Connecticut	33	0.64%	3,586,717	1.15%	9.84
41	Nevada	33	0.62%	2,720,028	0.87%	12.44
42	Montana	32	0.58%	997,667	0.32%	31.98
43	Hawaii	19	0.35%	1,378,129	0.44%	14.01
44	Maine	18	0.32%	1,328,544	0.43%	13.27
45	New Hampshire	16	0.30%	1,317,807	0.42%	12.46
46	Idaho	16	0.29%	1,583,744	0.51%	10.12
47	South Dakota	14	0.27%	823,593	0.26%	17.92
48	Delaware	12	0.24%	908,137	0.29%	14.44
49	Rhode Island	11	0.20%	1,050,646	0.34%	10.51
50	Vermont	6	0.11%	626,592	0.20%	9.42
51	District of Columbia	3	0.06%	619,020	0.20%	5.12

See also

• Climate change
• Comparisons of life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions
• Global warming
• Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States
• List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions
• List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions
• List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita
• List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions per capita
• List of countries by ratio of GDP to carbon dioxide emissions

Notes

• The 'States Total' value represents the sum of CO₂ emissions from the 50 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia. This value differs from total U.S. CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel combustion reported in the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks. The U.S. inventory value is larger because it includes emissions from U.S. territories and protectorates; it also uses a different approach for estimating emissions from non-energy uses of fossil fuels (which are not included in the combustion-related values shown in this table).
• Nationally, CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel combustion represented the largest source (79%) of total GWP–weighted emissions from all emission sources in 2011.^[1] Similarly, CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel combustion are the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions within a state.^[1]

References

1. "State Energy CO2 Emissions". US Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
2. "State CO2 Emissions". US Energy Information Administration. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
3. "Population Estimates: Vintage 2011: National Tables". Census.gov. US Census Bureau. Retrieved 9 July 2014.

External links

• EPA website
• State carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion from 1990 through 2011
• An interactive visualization of the CO2 emissions for each state based on this data