Earth Day in Charlotte: City still aims to be carbon-free by 2030
This week on Flashpoint, WCNC's Ben Thompson talks with Sarah Hazel, chief sustainability officer for the city of Charlotte, on the city's strategic energy action plan. In 2018, the city of Charlotte adopted the plan with a goal to have all its fleet and facilities fueled by 100 percent zero-carbon sources by 2030. "When our city council adopted those goals, they knew that it was incredibly ambitious," Sarah Hazel, Charlotte's Chief Sustainability Officer, said on WCNC's Flashpoint. Later, Ben talks to Kathie Dello, state climate office of North Carolina, who says we can see the impacts of climate change all around us. "We can break it down into just three easy things: hotter, wetter and more humid," Dello said. READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/politics/flashpoint/earth-day-charlotte-city-carbon-free-2030/275-5a742d42-09f3-4c16-9258-c6dfc637346b