Fact #479: July 23, 2007U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Sector, 1990-2006 (click here)
Emissions of carbon dioxide from the commercial sector increased by about 34% from 1990 to 2006. The transportation and residential sectors increased carbon dioxide emissions by about 25% over the same period. The industrial sector was the only sector to decrease carbon dioxide emissions.
...Emissions by the US (in 2005)- long the world's top emitter ... rose to 7.24 billion tonnes from 7.19 billion in 2004....
