Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)

Table 4-40: Estimated National Emissions of Carbon Monoxide (Million short tons)

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  1970 1975 1980 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
TOTAL all sources 204.04 188.40 185.41 176.84 173.67 172.97 174.42 160.52 154.19 147.13 140.90 135.90 133.56 126.78 128.86 117.91 115.38 117.23 123.57 120.76
Transportation, total 166.29 157.34 147.70 138.13 136.22 134.30 127.66 121.00 114.34 109.11 103.89 98.67 93.44 88.22 82.99 80.22 77.64 73.18 72.49 79.34
On-road vehicles 163.23 153.55 143.83 134.19 132.26 130.33 123.64 116.95 110.26 104.98 99.71 94.43 89.16 83.88 78.61 75.85 73.24 68.17 68.06 74.83
Off-road 3.06 3.78 3.87 3.94 3.96 3.96 4.02 4.05 4.08 4.13 4.18 4.23 4.29 4.34 4.39 4.37 4.40 5.01 4.43 4.51
Aircraft 0.17 0.18 0.21 0.22 0.22 0.22 0.23 0.23 0.24 0.24 0.24 0.24 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.28 0.30 0.34 0.27 0.26
Railroads 0.11 0.11 0.12 0.09 0.09 0.09 0.09 0.09 0.09 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.09 0.12 0.10 0.10
Marine vessels 0.13 0.13 0.13 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.13 0.13 0.13 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.13 0.13 0.12 0.13 0.13
Other off-roada 2.65 3.36 3.42 3.49 3.52 3.52 3.57 3.59 3.62 3.66 3.71 3.76 3.80 3.85 3.89 3.87 3.88 4.44 3.93 4.02
Nontransportation, total 37.75 31.06 37.71 38.72 37.45 38.67 46.76 39.52 39.85 38.01 37.01 37.24 40.12 38.56 45.87 37.69 37.74 44.05 51.08 41.42
Fuel combustion 4.63 4.48 7.30 8.49 7.55 6.96 7.37 7.44 5.51 5.86 6.15 5.59 5.52 5.93 4.34 4.33 4.33 5.44 4.59 4.59
Industrial processesb 9.84 7.54 6.95 5.27 5.15 5.00 5.23 5.27 4.77 4.62 4.55 4.65 4.61 4.60 3.64 3.80 3.81 2.54 2.62 2.74
Waste disposal and recycling 7.06 3.23 2.30 1.94 1.92 1.85 1.81 1.75 1.08 1.12 1.14 1.25 1.22 1.19 2.90 2.95 3.12 3.14 3.23 3.23
Miscellaneousc 16.22 15.81 21.15 23.02 22.83 24.86 32.35 25.06 28.49 26.42 25.17 25.75 28.76 26.84 34.99 26.61 26.48 32.93 40.65 30.86

KEY: R = revised.

a Other off-road comprises nonroad gasoline- and diesel-powered recreational, airport service and railway maintenance vehicles, and recreational marine vessels.

b Industrial processes comprises chemical and allied product manufacturing, metals processing, petroleum and related industries, and other industrial processes; and solvent utilization, storage, and transport.

c Miscellaneous comprises nonroad gasoline- and diesel-powered construction, industrial, lawn and garden, farm, light-commercial, logging vehicles and other nonroad sources; agriculture and forestry, health services, cooling towers, fugitive dust; and other combustion sources that could not be accurately allocated to specific source categories.

NOTES

The methodologies used to estimate emissions constantly evolve and undergo major changes. These improved methods are often used to revise estimates for previous years and, therefore, some estimates in this table may not match estimates produced in previous reports. The most recent revision of these estimates is based on Version 2 of the 1999 National Emissions Inventory (NEI) and provides a generally consistent time trend of the estimates. However, state-submitted data on mobile sources is only reflected in the estimates for 1999 and the EPA plans to correct this inconsistency in future publications.

Numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.

SOURCE

1970-2001: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Clearinghouse for Inventories and Emissions Factors (CHIEF), Current Emission Trends Summaries, available at Internet website http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/trends/ as of Aug. 14, 2003.

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