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Evansville council adopts 2025 Climate Action Plan funded by U.S. Department of Energy grant
Summary
The council unanimously adopted the city’s 2025 Climate Action Plan, a five‑year strategy to reduce greenhouse gases and improve resilience across energy, transportation, waste, land and resiliency sectors; the plan was developed with stakeholder input and funded by a Department of Energy grant at no cost to the city.
The Evansville Common Council unanimously adopted the city’s 2025 Climate Action Plan (CAP) on March 31.
Laura Norvell, director of the Evansville Climate Collaborative, presented a brief overview of the plan and said it is a five‑year strategic document with both short‑ and long‑term goals, intended to inform policy through 2050. Norvell said the plan focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving community resilience through strategies in five sectors: energy, transportation, waste, land and resiliency. She said the plan was developed with a stakeholder advisory team, referenced the city’s prior CAP from 2021, and incorporated community input and technical studies.
Norvell thanked the U.S. Department of Energy for a grant that funded development of the plan at no cost to the city and directed the council and public to evansvilleclimate.com for the full document. A council member thanked staff and volunteers who worked on the plan; one public speaker, Christopher Newark, praised the city’s progress and cited levelized cost figures to highlight potential long‑term savings from wind and solar energy.
On a voice and roll call vote, the council approved Resolution C2025-13 by a vote of nine ayes, zero nays.
