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Caroline Eggers, Environmental Reporter
Caroline Eggers covers environmental issues with a focus on equity for WPLN News through Report for America, a national service program that supports journalists in local newsrooms across the country. Before joining the station, she spent several years covering water quality issues, biodiversity, climate change and Mammoth Cave National Park for newsrooms in the South. Her reporting on homelessness and a runoff-related “fish kill” for the Bowling Green Daily News earned her 2020 Kentucky Press Association awards in the general news and extended coverage categories, respectively. Beyond deadlines, she is frequently dancing, playing piano and photographing wildlife and her poodle, Princess. She graduated from Emory University with majors in journalism and creative writing.
Al Gore talks climate crisis and solutions in Nashville
Former Vice President Al Gore’s message on the climate remains stark 20 years after his influential documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Grasslands are vulnerable in the Appalachians. New research shows a path for conservation
The Cumberland Plateau’s ecology has been misunderstood. Conservations now have a plan to save its rare habitats.
Spring in Tennessee has been warm, dry and early
Spring in Tennessee has been warm, dry and early.
Nashville works to rebuild its urban forest after losing trees in winter storm
Nashville lost a lot of trees during an ice storm last winter. Now the city is trying to bring back what was lost.
Tennessee’s biodiverse Duck River wins protections against new landfills
The Duck River watershed will be protected from landfill development, marking a bipartisan conservation outcome.
NES failed to heed ice storm forecast, independent review finds
The Nashville Electric Service did not prepare a sufficient workforce to restore power during Winter Storm Fern despite weather forecasts calling for dangerous levels of ice.
AES fined $3M for ‘indifference’ to worker safety in blast that killed 16
The deadly explosion at the AES munitions plant could have ignited due to dangerous working conditions, according to state investigators levying a record fine.
Elon Musk’s xAI, pollution and data centers — what you need to know about a Tennessee bill
Data centers are popping up, causing concerns about electricity use, and prompting a question: Should data centers be able to produce their own power?
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