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Municipal Management
Nevada city fights greenhouse gases with technology
By DANI MESSICK | The Municipal
Nevada’s 2020 State Climate Strategy has led one city to begin tracking its emission in an effort to reduce the heat island effect at their city buildings.
ABOVE: Fleet vehicles are one element of Reno’s focus on reducing emissions. (Photo provided by Reno, Nev.) TOP PHOTO: A solar array at one of the city’s sites, Rosewood Lakes, is presently leased to a private organization. (Photo provided by Reno, Nev.)
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“We have a goal in our sustainability plan of reducing emissions from the fleet, but we didn’t have a baseline to know how we were doing or where to go, so that’s probably the primary goal,” said Suzanne Groneman, sustainability program manager for Reno. “The other goal is so that we don’t make the wrong decisions; so we don’t install more solar panels when we should have been approaching our fleet and waste reduction, for example.” When the state of Nevada designed its 2020 State Climate Strategy, the city of Reno was the only city representative that was on the greenhouse gas emissions analysis group. “We voiced that it would make sense if there was consistency,” Groneman explained. “If they were going to eventually mandate some sort of greenhouse gas emissions reporting to the state, everybody
