Oak trees splintered. Sugar maples uprooted. Some trees crashed across Nashville streets, and hundreds of trees took out power lines. Nashville officials received reports for nearly 600 fallen trees on Friday following the windstorm. The total tally could be higher.
Pete Buttigieg, in Nashville, talks train safety following Ohio derailment
During a trip to Nashville on Friday, Buttigieg addressed what the Biden Administration is doing to improve rail safety after the Ohio derailment.
Update: Tennessee storm kills 3, knocks out power for thousands
Relentless winds toppled trees and power poles across Tennessee, killing three people and pushing electric companies to work around the clock to restore power.
Sinkholes are dangerous — and expensive. Tennessee lawmakers want home sellers to disclose them.
Sinkholes are popping up, or rather down, more often in some parts of the Southeast.
TVA’s coal pollution causes 241 premature deaths each year, study finds
According to a new report from the Sierra Club, TVA’s remaining coal plants could cause more than 2,000 premature deaths in the next decade.
EPA might tighten an air pollution rule. Nashville would have to change.
The Environmental Protection Agency may soon crack down on the deadliest form of air pollution: fine particulate matter.
Tornadoes, landslides and floods are easier to forecast with ‘mesonets.’ Tennessee may get one soon.
Weather forecasting, climate studies and landslide awareness could improve soon in Tennessee. State lawmakers have just proposed legislation to establish a statewide “mesonet,” which could ultimately be a network of ground-level weather stations in every county in Tennessee.
What you can recycle in Nashville now
Nashville started a twice-monthly recycling program for residents this week. This mass of recyclables, and often non-recyclables, goes to a Waste Management facility near Shelby Bottoms Park, on the southern side of the Cumberland River, to be sorted into four waste streams.
Tennessee’s aquatic critters are disappearing. The sickle darter is the latest.
The sickle darter, a spotted fish that rarely exceeds five inches in length, is the latest to perform a vanishing act. There are just three river systems left in East Tennessee that house the fish — the Emory, Little River and Sequatchie rivers.
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