Tennessee lawmakers are considering a bill to remove protections for certain types of wetlands across the state to financially benefit developers.
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.
Workers got sick after cleaning up TVA’s coal ash. A new book recounts their fight for justice.
In 2008, the Tennessee Valley Authority became the face of the largest industrial disaster in U.S. history.
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Tennessee may become the first state to legally define gas as “renewable energy.” State law currently defines natural gas as “clean energy.”
Swaths of Tennessee recover from drought following recent rains and snow
Drought conditions improved across Tennessee. The situation flipped last week after three to eight inches of rain or snow fell across the state.
If Nashville is blocked from using Middle Point landfill, what’s next?
The company that owns the landfill that receives most of Nashville’s trash wants to reject it. Here’s what that could mean.
Every Tennessee county just had a top 5 warmest year
Temperatures across Tennessee ranged from subzero to over 100 degrees last year, and the average ended up hot.
Wetlands in Tennessee under threat as lawmaker proposes another bill to cut protections
If passed into law, the measure would benefit developers, making construction easier and cheaper on some Tennessee wetlands.
Josselin Corea Escalante, a ‘bright and compassionate young woman,’ dreamed of being a doctor
The 16-year-old was a daughter, sister and niece. She played soccer and hoped to one day become a doctor. She lost her life on Wednesday after a shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville.
In Tennessee, who uses the most fracked gas?
Methane gas, the fracked fossil fuel that’s also called natural gas, powers a lot of Tennessee. But, who uses the most gas? The answer might surprise you.
Nashville neared 4 inches of snow Friday. Here’s how that stacks up with previous years.
Snowfall has been mixed in recent years. The city got nearly 8 inches last year, no snow in 2023 and more than 13 inches in 2022.
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