Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 1996
	Contacts
	Preface
	Executive Summary
	1. U.S. Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in Perspective
	2. Carbon Dioxide Emissions
	3. Methane Emissions
	4. Nitrous Oxide Emissions
	5. Halocarbons and Other Gases
	6. Criteria Pollutants
	7. Land Use Issues
	Appendix A. Estimation Methods
	Appendix B. Carbon Coefficients Used in This Report
	Appendix C. Uncertainty in Emissions Estimates
	Appendix D. Emissions Sources Excluded
	Appendix E. Common Conversion Factors
	References
	Glossary
	List of Tables and Figures

This report, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 1996, was prepared under the general direction of Mary J. Hutzler, Director of the Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting, Energy Information Administration. General questions concerning the content of this report may be referred to Arthur T. Andersen, Director of the Energy Demand and Integration Division (202/586-1441).

Specific technical information concerning the content of the report may be obtained from Perry M. Lindstrom (202/586-0934, e-mail perry.lindstrom@eia.doe.gov) or Arthur Rypinski (202/586-8425, e-mail arthur.rypinski @eia.doe.gov). This report was written by Arthur Rypinski (Executive Summary), Perry Lindstrom (Chapters 1 and 2), Michael Mondshine (Chapter 3), Stephen Calopedis (Chapters 4 and 6), Chris Minnucci (Chapter 5), and Kenneth Pruitt (Chapter 7).

Title XVI, Section 1605(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (enacted October 24, 1992) provides:

Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, through the Energy Information Administration, shall develop, based on data available to, and obtained by, the Energy Information Administration, an inventory of the national aggregate emissions of each greenhouse gas for each calendar year of the baseline period of 1987 through 1990. The Administrator of the Energy

Information Administration shall annually update and analyze such inventory using available data. This subsection does not provide any new data collection authority.

The first report in this series, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases 1985-1990, was published in September 1993. This report--the fifth annual report, as required by law-- presents the Energy Information Administration's latest estimates of emissions for carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other greenhouse gases.

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