EIA: U.S. Companies Achieving Greater Cuts in Greenhouse Gases
March 2, 2005 A total of 234 U.S. companies and other entities
have reported undertaking 2,188 projects in 2003 to reduce or
sequester greenhouse gases, DOE's Energy Information
Administration (EIA) announced in late February. The companies,
participants in EIA's Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases
Program, reduced their emissions by the equivalent to 268
million metric tons of carbon dioxide through direct emission
reductions, 81 million metric tons through indirect emission
reductions, and 7 million metric tons through carbon
sequestration. Indirect emission reductions are reductions from
sources not owned or leased by the reporting entity, but
occurring as a result of the entity's activities. Relative to
2002, the cut in direct emissions increased by 1.2 percent,
while the cut in indirect reductions increased by 1.1 percent.
See the EIA press release. Meanwhile, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has released its draft inventory