Like hundreds of other cities, Louisville, Kentucky, is searching for a path to address climate change. To get there, however, city officials need the cooperation of the region’s electric utility, Louisville Gas and Electric Co., which depends on coal and still sees coal as a future option. In a collaborative project organized by InsideClimate News, reporters across the Southeast are publishing stories on the progress and problems their communities face related to climate change. The journalists found communities struggling with funding or a lack of political will, and an urgent need for technological breakthroughs to meet global warming head-on. Read their work below, including: an overview from Louisville, Kentucky ( InsideClimate News ). and stories that hold leaders in their communities accountable for reducing carbon emissions from Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina ( The Post and Courier and The State ), Birmingham, Alabama ( BirminghamWatch ), Savannah, Georgia ( […]