Climate Crisis Roanoke Council Has Called For 'Emergency Action' On Global Warming. So Why Is the City's Climate Plan Still Out of Date? A pandemic, plastic bag fee and recent retirement have contributed to a delay in revising Roanoke's master climate plan.
Climate Crisis From Flooding to Home Repairs, Here’s How Virginia’s Intent to Leave Carbon Cap and Trade Program Could Affect Roanoke Funding for low-income home repairs may be harder to come by if Virginia pulls out of regional carbon cap-and-trade market.
Climate Crisis Roanoke To Take ‘Aggressive’ Climate Action After Report Urges City To Halve Emissions Since 2009, the city has had goals to reduce carbon emissions by 10 percent citywide every five years.
Climate Crisis As Roanoke Grows Hotter, Poor and Black Neighborhoods Face the Most Danger, Study Shows Extreme heat can pose a huge threat to the safety and prosperity of a neighborhood, a community and an entire city.
