U.S. per capita emissions have reduced by roughly 30 percent.
Per capita carbon dioxide emissions in the United States were estimated at 14.6 metric tons (tCO₂) in 2022. Under a business-as-usual scenario based on laws and regulations as of November 2022 under evolutionary technological growth assumptions, U.S. per capita emissions would fall to 10.6 tCO₂. Since 1990, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions per capita from 2022 to 2050 (in metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent)
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