Lotus presents Chaffee County's first countywide greenhouse-gas inventory; transportation is largest source

Lotus Engineering associate Claire Kanter presented Chaffee County’s first communitywide greenhouse-gas inventory for 2024, reporting the county’s total at roughly 300,000 metric tons of carbon-dioxide-equivalent and identifying transportation and residential building energy as the largest emission sources. "The whole county is approaching about 300,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent," Claire said, explaining the inventory follows the global protocol for community-scale greenhouse-gas accounting.