Kansas City’s Office of Environmental Quality (OEQ) promotes ways to shrink municipal government’s carbon footprint, from expanding the city’s electric fleet, to placing solar panels on city buildings to telling the auditor to turn off the lights in unused areas of his office. In 2020, the City Council passed a resolution to update the city’s Climate Protection and Resiliency Plan, centered on the goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2030 for city operations and citywide by 2040. OEQ, tasked with drawing up the plan, is finishing a draft now. OEQ has been housed for years in the city manager’s office. But under the city’s proposed new budget, scheduled for adoption on March 24, it would be moved into the Neighborhood Services Department.
By Anna Spoerre. Kansas City Star/MSN. March 9, 2022.
Read article here:
