GHGRP 2021: Chemicals
•Emissions Trends •Emissions by GHG •Emissions by Location •Emissions Ranges
Sector Data Highlights
•Chemicals (Non-Fluorinated Chemicals) (Fluorinated Chemicals) •Electrical Equipment •Electronics Manufacturing •Metals •Minerals •Miscellaneous Combustion •Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems (Onshore Production) (Other Industry Segments) •Power Plants •Pulp & Paper •Refineries •Underground Coal Mines •Waste •Suppliers •Natural Gas and Natural Gas Liquids •Petroleum Products •Industrial GHGs & Products Containing GHGs •Supply, Underground Injection, and Geologic Sequestration of CO2 •Fluorinated GHG Emissions and Supplies
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 459 chemicals facilities reported in 2021.
On this page:
- 2021 Total Reported Direct Emissions from Chemicals, by Subsector (as of 8/12/2022)
- Trend of Annual Reported GHG Emissions by Subsector (as of 8/12/2022)
- Location and emissions for each reporting facility in the chemicals sector (as of 8/12/2022)
- Number of reporters and emissions in the chemicals sector (as of 8/12/2022)
2021 Total Reported Direct Emissions from Chemicals, by Subsector (as of 8/12/2022)
Trend of Annual Reported GHG Emissions by Subsector (as of 8/12/2022)
What factors influenced the trends in emissions for non-fluorinated chemicals production?
What factors influenced the trends in emissions for fluorinated chemicals production?
Location and emissions for each reporting facility in the chemicals sector (as of 8/12/2022)
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 8/12/2022)
| 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 | |
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| Number of facilities: | 458 | 468 | 473 | 464 | 465 | 456 | 458 | 457 | 454 | 454 | 459 |
| Total emissions (CO2e): | 180.4 | 173.0 | 174.6 | 177.1 | 177.1 | 177.1 | 184.5 | 191.8 | 186.5 | 184.4 | 186.5 |
| Emissions by greenhouse gas (CO2e) | |||||||||||
| • Carbon dioxide (CO2): | 142.5 | 143.2 | 147.0 | 149.4 | 151.3 | 152.6 | 157.9 | 163.8 | 162.5 | 160.7 | 163.6 |
| • Methane (CH4): | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 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 | 17.8 | 16.4 |
| • Fluorinated GHGs: | 16.5 | 13.6 | 12.6 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 6.8 | 9.2 | 7.4 | 8.4 | 5.7 | 6.1 |
| Emissions by subsector | |||||||||||
| • Non-fluorinated chemicals | 163.1 | 158.6 | 161.2 | 165.4 | 166.8 | 169.6 | 174.6 | 183.6 | 177.4 | 178.0 | 179.9 |
| • Fluorinated chemicals | 17.3 | 14.4 | 13.4 | 11.7 | 10.3 | 7.6 | 9.9 | 8.2 | 9.2 | 6.4 | 6.6 |
Totals may not equal sum of individual GHGs due to independent rounding.