"It's Not Just About Climate Change" - AVL Councilman Keith Young Talks Local Green New Deal - a podcast by Blue Ridge Public Radio - BPR News Extended

Asheville city council members meet for the final time in 2019 Tuesday evening, and lawmakers will take up a resolution that calls for a climate emergency to be declared by the city. While the resolution calls for action but offers no policy, a set of wide-ranging legislative proposals around climate change could be in front of lawmakers early next year. Their sponsor refers to them as a local 'Green New Deal', patterned after the similarly-named plan introduced in Congress this year two

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