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FIGURE 8-4 Transportation-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 2011

Friday, April 10, 2015

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Total = 1,834 Teragrams of CO2 Equvalient Units

   
Carbon dioxide - CO2 95.9%
Methane - CH4 0.1%
Nitrous oxide - N2O 0.9%
Hydrofluorocarbons - HFCs 3.1%

SOURCE: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table 2-15. Available at http://epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usinventoryreport.html as of November 2013.