Harris County has one of the largest sources of stationary CO2e emissions in the state....
In 2021, nearly 12 million metric tons of CO2e came out of the Exxon Mobil's Baytown Refinery, the third-largest refinery in the U.S. and fifth-highest emitter in Texas,. But data submitted by facilities such as power plants, refineries, chemical plants and other similar industries that are required to report emissions to the Environmental Protection Agency across Harris County shows a very different story.
Nearly 12 million metric tons of CO2e came out of the Baytown refinery in 2021. For comparison, emissions from all ofHarris County has 102 facilities required to report this data to the EPA, 14 of which produce more than 1 million metric tons of CO2e annually. Texas is home to 1,862 facilities, 18 percent of the 8,000 U.S. facilities that report each year and more than three times as many facilities as any other state.
The Exxon Mobil Baytown complex, of which the refinery is one part, sits on 3,400 acres along the Houston Ship Channel. It produces roughly 584,000 barrels of crude oil a day and has emitted almost three times the CO2e of any other source in Harris County since 2013., and has emitted two thirds as much CO2e as the Baytown refinery.
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