Flood preparedness may be the top safety priority in Tennessee next year. The Tennessee Department of Military requested about $5 million during a budget hearing with Gov. Bill Lee last week to develop “flood preparedness tools.”
Tennessee is drafting its first-ever plan to cut climate pollution. The state wants your input.
In the next few months, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation will complete two firsts for the state. The agency will create an inventory of the state’s biggest climate offenders — and then draft a plan to cut that pollution statewide.
‘Flash droughts’ can shift the ground beneath Nashville. That’s a problem for water pipes.
In Nashville, the ground often dances between parched and soaked.
Tennessee is in a ‘flash drought’
Nearly half of Tennessee is in severe drought, including some of Middle Tennessee. The city of Franklin recently asked citizens to voluntarily reduce water consumption, and some cities have issued burn bans.
‘Stop polluting the communities of Black folks’: A Memphis resident reacts to TVA’s latest methane gas proposal
The Tennessee Valley Authority has planned the largest fossil fuel buildout of any utility in the nation this decade — and it just proposed another project.
Your electricity bill is going up. Why? TVA is only telling part of the $15B answer.
The Tennessee Valley Authority will spend $15 billion on capital projects, like new generation and transmission, in the next three years. On what, exactly?
Mayor Cooper drops a plan for adapting to climate change on his way out the door
Soon after taking office, Mayor John Cooper signed the Global Covenant of Mayors, committing the city to creating plans to both mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Nashvillians will ‘March to End Fossil Fuels’ this Sunday
Earth is heating up, because humans continue to burn fossil fuels. In the last decade, the use of oil, coal and gas accounted for as much as 86% of the global warming fueling fires and floods. The U.S. can transition all electricity to renewable and nuclear sources by 2035, and buildings and most vehicles can […]
Justin J. Pearson awarded Sierra Club’s highest honor for leadership stopping oil pipeline in Memphis
In 2021, Justin J. Pearson led people in protests against billion-dollar fossil fuel companies. Together, they helped stop an oil pipeline that would have cut through mostly Black neighborhoods in Memphis.
Climate priorities of Nashville’s next mayor — with some context
In three weeks, the mayoral election may decide whether Nashville takes significant climate action.