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Caroline Eggers

Nashville’s electronic festival Deep Tropics debuting a ‘sustainability summit’ Thursday

By Caroline Eggers

August 14, 2024

The Deep Tropics Music, Art and Style Festival will host a sustainability summit on Thursday. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: deep tropics, electronic dance music, festivals, sustainability

PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge is spreading across Tennessee lands. The state might intervene.

By Caroline Eggers

August 14, 2024

Tennessee farmers and landowners are using treated sewage as fertilizer across open lands, and some of that sludge is contaminated with toxic chemicals.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: agriculture, PFAS, pollution, wastewater, water

Tennessee officials are worried about wetlands. Here’s why.

By Caroline Eggers

August 9, 2024

Earlier this year, the state legislature considered a developer-backed bill to remove regulations on more than half of Tennessee’s wetlands. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: conservation, Economic Development, flood, soil, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, wetlands

Tennessee creates new office for ‘outdoor recreation’

By Caroline Eggers

August 8, 2024

A new office within Tennessee’s state environmental agency will be tasked with getting people outdoors.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: conservation, outdoors, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, water

Tennessee ranks near bottom for solar energy production in the Southeast

By Caroline Eggers

August 5, 2024

One point of comparison is Florida’s big utility: Florida, Power and Light has a similar total generating capacity to TVA but five times as much solar. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: renewable energy, solar power, Tennessee Valley Authority

Storm ‘brownouts’ lower electricity and disrupt appliances. Here’s what to know.

By Caroline Eggers

July 31, 2024

The Nashville Electric Service reported about 10,000 power outages during the thunderstorm on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.  But there was another type of electrical disturbance during the storm that was not reported: a brownout.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: blackouts, Nashville Electric Service, power outages, severe weather, transmission

Moth enthusiasts track nocturnal fliers at Bells Bend Park

By Caroline Eggers

July 31, 2024

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Connecting to the diverse world of moths — like at Moth Watch at Bells Bend Park could help people see past common perceptions.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: Bells Bend Park, conservation, insects, Metro Parks, wildlife

Nashville issues 7th heat advisory this summer

By Caroline Eggers

July 30, 2024

Heat is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S. and globally. Heat can strain organs in bodies as people try to cool down, worsening conditions like heart disease, diabetes and asthma.  Heat risk communication like heat advisories, however, varies across the country.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: climate change, Extreme weather, fossil fuels, heat, heat advisory, Weather

TVA leadership’s ‘fossil fuel agenda’ questioned as utility advances another gas project

By Caroline Eggers

July 24, 2024

TVA is planning to build a half-gigawatt methane gas plant in central Mississippi. The federal utility released a draft environmental review for the project, in which TVA considered no alternatives to a gas plant. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: climate change, fossil fuels, methane, Tennessee Valley Authority

Nashville is 53-56% forested. Here’s why it probably doesn’t seem that way.

By Caroline Eggers

June 28, 2024

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Nashville may have the largest urban tree canopy among major U.S. cities.  In December, the city published its first comprehensive urban tree canopy assessment measuring our trees — and tree loss — over an 11-year period. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: conservation, Flooding, heat, trees, urban trees

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