Climate

The city's aging gas utility is leaking more and more methane into the atmosphere.

What's happening: January of 2022 was the utility's worst month for leaks yet, writes the Times-Dispatch's Luca Powell.

Allergy season in Richmond increased by nearly a month on average between 1970 and 2021, per an analysis from Climate Central, a nonprofit climate news organization.

• That's based on the number of days between the last freeze each spring and the first freeze each fall — essentially, the annual window during which seasonal allergy sufferers are most likely to rely on their antihistamine of choice to get by each day.