List of U.S. states by carbon dioxide emissions

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

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 2014.^[1] Interactive bar charts (showing state rankings for total and per-capita emissions) and interactive maps (for both total emissions and per capita emissions) for the 2014 data are available on Tableau Public.

Table

Rank	Jurisdiction	Annual CO2 emissions (in millions of metric tons)[2]	Percentage of total emissions	Population (population estimate in 2014)[3]	Percentage of total population	CO2 emissions per capita (in metric tons)
-	States Total	5,434	100.00%	318,857,056	100.00%	17.04
1	Texas	709	13.04%	26,956,958	8.45%	26.29
2	California	359	6.61%	38,802,500	12.17%	9.26
3	Pennsylvania	242	4.46%	12,787,209	4.01%	18.94
4	Illinois	233	4.29%	12,880,580	4.04%	18.12
5	Ohio	229	4.21%	11,594,163	3.64%	19.75
6	Florida	227	4.18%	19,893,297	6.24%	11.41
7	Louisiana	207	3.81%	4,649,676	1.46%	44.50
8	Indiana	203	3.74%	6,596,855	2.07%	30.81
9	New York	170	3.13%	19,746,227	6.19%	8.61
10	Michigan	162	2.97%	9,909,877	3.11%	16.31
11	Georgia	139	2.56%	10,097,343	3.17%	13.76
12	Kentucky	138	2.53%	4,413,457	1.38%	31.19
13	Missouri	131	2.42%	6,063,589	1.90%	21.66
14	North Carolina	126	2.31%	9.943.964	3.12%	12.64
15	Alabama	121	2.24%	4,849,377	1.52%	25.05
16	New Jersey	114	2.10%	8,938,175	2.80%	12.78
17	Oklahoma	104	1.92%	3,878,051	1.22%	26.92
18	Virginia	103	1.90%	8,326,289	2.61%	12.42
19	Tennessee	103	1.89%	6,549,352	2.05%	15.69
20	Wisconsin	101	1.85%	5,757,564	1.81%	17.47
21	West Virginia	97	1.79%	1,850,326	0.58%	52.47
22	Minnesota	94	1.73%	5,457,173	1.71%	17.24
23	Arizona	93	1.71%	6,731,484	2.11%	13.79
24	Colorado	91	1.67%	5,355,866	1.68%	16.95
25	Iowa	83	1.53%	3,107,126	0.97%	26.78
26	South Carolina	74	1.37%	4,832,482	1.52%	15.39
27	Washington	73	1.35%	7,061,530	2.21%	10.40
28	Kansas	70	1.28%	2,904,021	0.91%	23.97
29	Arkansas	69	1.26%	2,966,369	0.93%	23.13
30	Wyoming	65	1.20%	584,153	0.18%	111.55
31	Utah	64	1.19%	2,942,902	0.92%	21.90
32	Massachusetts	64	1.18%	6,745,408	2.12%	9.49
33	Mississippi	64	1.17%	2,994,079	0.94%	21.28
34	Maryland	62	1.14%	5,976,407	1.87%	10.38
35	North Dakota	55	1.02%	739,482	0.23%	74.81
36	Nebraska	52	0.95%	1,881,503	0.59%	27.51
37	New Mexico	50	0.92%	2,085,572	0.65%	24.07
38	Oregon	38	0.70%	3,970,239	1.25%	9.56
39	Nevada	37	0.68%	2,839,099	0.89%	13.02
40	Connecticut	35	0.65%	3,596,677	1.13%	9.77
41	Alaska	35	0.64%	736,732	0.23%	47.17
42	Montana	32	0.59%	1,023,579	0.32%	31.51
43	Hawaii	18	0.33%	1,419,561	0.45%	12.82
44	Maine	17	0.31%	1,330,089	0.42%	12.52
45	Idaho	17	0.31%	1,634,464	0.51%	10.18
46	South Dakota	15	0.28%	853,175	0.27%	17.91
47	New Hampshire	15	0.27%	1,326,813	0.42%	11.25
48	Delaware	13	0.25%	935,614	0.29%	14.24
49	Rhode Island	11	0.20%	1,055,173	0.33%	10.08
50	Vermont	6	0.11%	626,562	0.20%	9.38
51	District of Columbia	3	0.06%	658,893	0.21%	4.55

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 (76%) of total GWP–weighted emissions from all emission sources in 2014.^[1] Similarly, CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel combustion are the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions within a state.^[1]

References

1. "U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report: 1990-2014". US Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
2. "State Energy CO2 Emissions". US Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
3. "Population Estimates: State Totals: Vintage 2014". Census.gov. US Census Bureau. Retrieved 13 September 2016.

External links

• EPA website
• Energy CO2 Emissions by State
• Interactive graphs and maps of the 2014 data on Tableau Public
• An interactive visualization of the CO2 emissions for each state based on this data