# US states by greenhouse gas emissions (EPA state inventory), 2022

All 51 values come from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 2022, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `state_ghg_emissions`
- Unit: million tonnes of CO2 equivalent
- Definition: Gross greenhouse gas emissions of a US state or the District of Columbia, the sum of the transportation, electric power, industry, agriculture, commercial and residential sectors, without the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) net flux. In million metric tons of CO2 equivalent: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases weighted by their 100-year global warming potentials (IPCC AR5), from the EPA inventory of US emissions by state, which allocates the national inventory to the states with the same methods for every state. Emissions are counted where they occur, so electricity is counted in the state that generates it, not the state that uses it.
- Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA greenhouse gas inventory by state: gross total of the six economic sectors, excluding LULUCF, million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/state-ghg-emissions-and-removals)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/environmental-protection-agency
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks by State. EPA greenhouse gas inventory by state: gross total of the six economic sectors, excluding LULUCF, million metric tons of CO2 equivalent. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/state-ghg-emissions-and-removals. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/state-greenhouse-gas-emissions/us-states

| Rank | Place | million tonnes of CO2 equivalent |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Texas | 851.14 |
| 2 | California | 399.13 |
| 3 | Florida | 266.56 |
| 4 | Pennsylvania | 264.46 |
| 5 | Ohio | 237.56 |
| 6 | Illinois | 225.29 |
| 7 | Louisiana | 222.63 |
| 8 | New York | 194.81 |
| 9 | Indiana | 193.25 |
| 10 | Michigan | 185.93 |
| 11 | Missouri | 151.38 |
| 12 | Georgia | 146.88 |
| 13 | North Carolina | 142.32 |
| 14 | Kentucky | 135.69 |
| 15 | Alabama | 135.03 |
| 16 | Oklahoma | 133.55 |
| 17 | Minnesota | 128.41 |
| 18 | Colorado | 124.19 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | 122.03 |
| 20 | Iowa | 118.01 |
| 21 | Virginia | 116.47 |
| 22 | West Virginia | 114.81 |
| 23 | Kansas | 112.47 |
| 24 | Tennessee | 108.67 |
| 25 | Arizona | 100.27 |
| 26 | New Jersey | 99.72 |
| 27 | Arkansas | 89.98 |
| 28 | North Dakota | 88.21 |
| 29 | Washington | 87.87 |
| 30 | Nebraska | 87.3 |
| 31 | Wyoming | 83.64 |
| 32 | Mississippi | 80.91 |
| 33 | South Carolina | 80.39 |
| 34 | New Mexico | 77.25 |
| 35 | Utah | 75.15 |
| 36 | Massachusetts | 66.52 |
| 37 | Maryland | 60.72 |
| 38 | Montana | 52.87 |
| 39 | Oregon | 51.09 |
| 40 | Nevada | 46.53 |
| 41 | South Dakota | 43.5 |
| 42 | Connecticut | 41.36 |
| 43 | Alaska | 40.62 |
| 44 | Idaho | 38.43 |
| 45 | Hawaii | 17.66 |
| 46 | Maine | 17.38 |
| 47 | New Hampshire | 15.95 |
| 48 | Delaware | 14.5 |
| 49 | Rhode Island | 11.19 |
| 50 | Vermont | 8.29 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 3.2 |