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Council adopts Evansville 2025 Climate Action Plan resolution
Summary
Resolution C2025-13, adopting the city’s 2025 Climate Action Plan developed by the Evansville Climate Collaborative with DOE grant support, passed unanimously; plan outlines 50 actions across energy, transportation, waste, land and resiliency.
The Evansville Common Council on March 31 unanimously adopted Resolution C2025-13, formally recognizing the city’s 2025 Climate Action Plan (CAP).
Laura Norvell, director of the Evansville Climate Collaborative, presented the plan and said it is a five-year strategic document with short- and long-term goals intended to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and improve community resilience. Norvell said the plan builds on a 2021 CAP and incorporates stakeholder advisory input, technical studies and community feedback and that the U.S. Department of Energy provided a grant that funded the plan at no cost to the city.
Norvell described the plan’s five sectors—energy, transportation, waste, land and resiliency—and said it lists roughly 50 actions the city, residents and businesses could prioritize to maximize community benefits, including improved health, energy security, mobility and equity. Several council members and members of the public praised the work and thanked the Collaborative and the mayor’s office for leadership and stakeholder engagement.
A public speaker with technical experience said the plan’s emphasis on renewables could deliver energy-cost savings; a council member and other supporters noted the plan is intentionally concise and actionable. The clerk recorded a roll-call vote of 9 ayes and 0 nays and declared the resolution adopted.
The plan is posted at evansvilleclimate.com per the presenter.
