A summer study was done through Indiana University's Environmental Resilience Institute. It took inventory of the city's greenhouse gas emissions for 2017 to create a base year for future comparisons.
Erin Lasher, the Evansville native and IU student who compiled the emissions inventory, said local governments are the ideal place to begin making environmentally sustainable changes that are community-specific.
City officials say local government is already taking steps toward more sustainable operations, particularly in the last year.
