The U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) posted new estimates of state carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion earlier this week. EIA estimates that Washington state sources emitted 69.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2011. This was 2.5 percent below the 70.5 million tons emitted in 1990 and represented the lowest emissions total since 1987. On a per capita basis, 2011 emissions were 30 percent less than 1990 (10.1 tons vs. 14.3 tons).

Here’s a chart of Washington’s emissions from 1981 to 2011:

The new data are available in Excel format  here on the EIA website.