Internet service will be Tennessee’s top environmental spending priority next year.
‘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.
Nashville is getting a new rooftop solar program. Here’s what we know so far.
Rooftop solar will soon be more affordable for some people in Nashville. The Nashville Electric Service is creating a new program to pay households with solar panels that produce excess electricity. The program was designed through a new contract with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
‘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?
The Cumberland Gap is a natural trail across the Appalachians. One little piece just got protected.
The Appalachians span 2,000 miles from Alabama to Canada. At the Kentucky and Tennessee border, there is a natural break in the mountains called the Cumberland Gap.
Tennessee has the fastest-growing clean energy workforce in the nation — and no, it’s not all because of EVs
Tennessee has the fastest-growing clean energy workforce in the nation — and it is not just because of all of the new electric vehicle manufacturing plants.
A Nashville painter reflects on scenes from the Stones River, an unsung tributary of the Cumberland
The Stones River is a stream that feeds into the Cumberland River in Nashville. It holds the J. Percy Priest Dam and winds along a popular greenway, but many people have never heard of it. A local artist wants to change that.
Meet the 22-year-old from Tennessee who founded an environmental Instagram with 800K followers
When the pandemic hit, Ashley Barrientos was a freshman at Middle Tennessee State University. Her worldview, at just 19 years old, was rapidly evolving. “I started to see a lot of the cracks in the systems,” Barrientos said.
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