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 So Why Is the City's Climate Plan Still Out of Date?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.
Environment Map of Air Pollution Data Shows Higher Cancer Risk Around Radford Army Ammunition Plant People living near the Radford Army Ammunition Plant have an increased lifetime cancer risk, according to a new report of air pollution data.
Environment Roanoke Residents Shoulder Recycling Burden As Economic Markets Bind Localities' Efforts “We need to lead from the bottom up, because our leaders aren’t doing what they need to do,” one advocate said.
Environment Radford Arsenal Slow-Walks From Open Burning. Now Its Incineration Plan Is Raising Alarms. The federal government has consistently ranked the facility as one of the top polluters in Virginia.
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.
Environment Leaders in Southwest Virginia Are Embracing Green Energy — And Hoping Coal Stays Alive These are interesting — and seemingly contradictory — times in Virginia’s coalfields.