GHGRP Chemicals
- 2023 Emissions by Subsector
- Emissions Trend by Subsector
- 2023 Emissions by Facility Location
- Number of Reporters and Emissions
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 Emissions by Subsector
Emissions Trend by Subsector
What factors influenced the trends in emissions for non-fluorinated chemicals production?
2023 Emissions by Facility Location
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) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metric | 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.