Climate Crisis Roanoke Council Moves To Fold Climate Change Action Into City's Master Plan City Council disagreed whether to adopt the plan sooner as a standalone or to formally incorporate it later into the city’s master plan.
Climate Crisis Roanoke Becomes Home To a New Kind of Refugee: Those Fleeing Climate Change One-third of Americans cited climate change as a reason to move, per a recent survey. Some who do are choosing Roanoke.
Climate Hot Summer Nights and Low-Snow Winters: How Roanoke's Climate Is Changing You will need your snow shovels again. But some things, especially warm summer nights, are noticeably changing in Roanoke’s climate.
Environment Roanoke's Tree Canopy Has Fallen Over the Last Decade. City Leaders Are Now Trying To Restore It. Roanoke's tree canopy coverage was at 26 percent in 2019, down from 48 percent at the beginning of the decade.
Climate Crisis Roanoke Must Take Swift Action To Avoid Worsening Climate Change, City Plan Urges The climate action plan says the community must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2032.
Environment City Acknowledges 'Definite Overreach' After Clear-Cutting Roanoke Man's Native Garden “There’s a lot of lessons to be learned here and we stand ready to be accountable for our part in it,” a city official said.
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 So Why Is the City's Climate Plan Still Out of Date?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.
Environment 'Worst I've Ever Seen': Plastics Choke Roanoke River As City Bag Fee Encourages Alternatives A plastic bag fee that went into effect this year is one of the ways Roanoke City is trying to reduce plastic waste.
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.