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Takoma Park presents ClearPath dashboard, emissions update and pilots for EV charging and multifamily food-waste collection
Summary
The city’s sustainability office reported a 31% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions since 2005, previewed a public ClearPath dashboard that models pathways to net-zero by 2035, and announced grant-funded EV charging installations and a multifamily food-waste pilot starting this spring.
The Takoma Park sustainability office on Jan. 14 presented an updated greenhouse-gas inventory, a new public-facing dashboard to track climate actions and several pilot programs designed to reduce emissions and increase community access to clean energy.
Sustainability manager Zoria Bridal said the city’s 2023 inventory totals about 128,000 metric tons of CO2, with the built environment accounting for roughly 36% and transportation about 54%. “We’re decreasing our greenhouse gas emissions by 31% between 2005 and 2023,” Bridal said, but she cautioned that modeled interventions still leave a sizable gap to the city’s net-zero-by-2035…
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