Emissions of greenhouse gases from large industrial sources increased by 0.6 percent since 2012, according to the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program data, which is compiled from reports sent in by more than 8,000 emitters. (pearltrees.com)
The oil and gas industry is the nation's largest industrial source of methane, a much more potent climate - warming pollutant than carbon dioxide pound - for - pound, and the oil and gas sector is the second largest industrial contributor to overall climate pollution. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
These reservoirs are more than enough for the 3.2 billion metric tons of CO2 emitted every year by the roughly 4,600 large industrial sources in the country. (scientificamerican.com)