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Fayetteville reports 6% drop in community emissions for 2024; government operations see large declines since 2010

Environmental Action Committee, City of Fayetteville · October 20, 2025
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Environmental Director Peter Niergarten said the city's 2024 inventory shows a 6% reduction in community greenhouse-gas emissions versus 2023 and significant government operations reductions largely driven by solar arrays at wastewater plants; fleet emissions remain the largest remaining source for government operations.

City environmental staff presented Fayetteville's 2024 greenhouse-gas inventory and government-operations emissions summary to the Environmental Action Committee on Oct. 20.

Peter Niergarten reported that community-wide emissions declined "6%" in 2024 compared with 2023 and are down about 22.5% since the 2010 baseline. He said per-capita emissions have fallen from roughly…

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