Freshly released data has shown that the reduction in transport and industrial activity caused by the COVID-19 crisis has meant that US energy-related CO₂ emissions were at their lowest ever monthly recorded level in April of this year. (Records began in 1973.) Total CO₂ emissions were at 307 million (metric) tonnes for the month, after emissions from petroleum consumption fell by 25% and 16% from coal (on a month-on-month basis). The context was a 39.8% drop in travel on US roads and a 96% decline in the number of airplane passengers. The Energy Information Administration predicts that for the rest of 2020, emissions will be about 11% lower than the equivalent period last year.