Data centers are popping up, causing concerns about electricity use, and prompting a question: Should data centers be able to produce their own power?
Landfills, churches, meat plants and schools? A Tennessee bill could strip boundaries between industry and communities
Tennessee lawmakers are considering a bill to lessen the ability of local governments to enforce laws about what and where people can build.
New map shows Tennessee’s polluted waterways
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation has mapped polluted waterways across the state. Tennessee boasts about 60,000 miles of streams and rivers, along with 29 reservoir lakes. The state agency has been monitoring their water quality for decades and periodically releases new data.
Listen: A Tennessee researcher helped author the last, now-threatened National Climate Assessment
Earth is nearing critical thresholds with record heat. But scientific data on how warming will impact the people, environment and economy in the U.S. may become harder to access.
Trump grants TVA ‘exemption’ to air pollution regulations for coal
In late March, the Trump administration made a unique offer to power providers: send an email and get out of federal pollution restrictions. The Tennessee Valley Authority quickly signed up.
Who is backing Tennessee’s wetland deregulation effort?
Developers may soon face fewer environmental regulations when they build on Tennessee wetlands.
How pesticides, Monsanto and ‘buried’ scientific evidence converge in a proposed Tennessee law
Pesticide companies are among the wealthiest corporations in the world. Take Bayer: The chemical and pharmaceutical corporation made about half of its $50 billion revenue last year from pesticide and seed sales.
PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge is spreading across Tennessee lands. The state might intervene.
Tennessee farmers and landowners are using treated sewage as fertilizer across open lands, and some of that sludge is contaminated with toxic chemicals.
How Tennessee has been impacted by the fossil fuel byproduct ethylene oxide
Sterilization Services of Tennessee, a simple brick building nestled between a railroad and interstate in Memphis, quietly raised cancer risks in nearby communities for nearly five decades before shutting down this year.
A small Tennessee town’s sewage system might be polluting the Duck River
For at least three years, the wastewater treatment plant in Chapel Hill has repeatedly violated state pollution limits for treated sewage discharges.
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