EIA projects U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions to fall in the near term, then rise

In our Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022), we project that energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will decrease in the United States through the mid-2030s and then increase through 2050 across a wide variety of assumptions. We project that, over time, increasing emissions from natural gas and petroleum consumption growth will offset declines in emissions from coal consumption. More »