Louisville Metro’s Cool Roof Incentive program and urban tree planting efforts are the city’s best strategies for combating the rapidly growing urban heat island, but they’re not moving fast enough.
Louisville's public transit system has been awarded $7.4 million by the Federal Transit Administration to buy zero-emission buses and expansive charging infrastructure, TARC and Louisville Metro leaders announced on Wednesday.
Residents of several municipalities in Boulder County were forced to flee. Hundreds of homes, a shopping center and a hotel burned as gusts reached 110 m.p.h.
A Louisville chemical plant that emits extremely potent greenhouse gases has applied for a permit to build new equipment to reduce its carbon footprint.