Environment and Climate - The Roanoke Rambler

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.

A pandemic, plastic bag fee and recent retirement have contributed to a delay in revising Roanoke's master climate plan.

A plastic bag fee that went into effect this year is one of the ways Roanoke City is trying to reduce plastic waste.

Funding for low-income home repairs may be harder to come by if Virginia pulls out of regional carbon cap-and-trade market.

People living near the Radford Army Ammunition Plant have an increased lifetime cancer risk, according to a new report of air pollution data.

“We need to lead from the bottom up, because our leaders aren’t doing what they need to do,” one advocate said.

The federal government has consistently ranked the facility as one of the top polluters in Virginia.

Since 2009, the city has had goals to reduce carbon emissions by 10 percent citywide every five years.

These are interesting — and seemingly contradictory — times in Virginia’s coalfields.