Caroline Eggers
Environmental Reporter, WPLNCaroline Eggers covers environmental issues with a focus on equity for WPLN News through Report for America, a national service program that supports journalists in local newsrooms across the country. Before joining the station, she spent several years covering water quality issues, biodiversity, climate change and Mammoth Cave National Park for newsrooms in the South. Her reporting on homelessness and a runoff-related “fish kill” for the Bowling Green Daily News earned her 2020 Kentucky Press Association awards in the general news and extended coverage categories, respectively. Beyond deadlines, she is frequently dancing, playing piano and photographing wildlife and her poodle, Princess. She graduated from Emory University with majors in journalism and creative writing.
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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. -
Tennessee lawmakers are considering a bill to remove protections for certain types of wetlands across the state to financially benefit developers. -
Tennessee may become the first state to legally define gas as “renewable energy.” -
Tennessee lawmakers will again consider removing legal protections for wetlands across the state this year. -
Bat populations have been on the decline in the U.S. for decades due to climate change, habitat loss and a nasty fungal disease. But one species has been making a major comeback in Tennessee: the gray bat. -
The nation’s largest public power provider will be just as reliant on fossil fuels in 2030 as it was in 2020, according to TVA’s modeling. -
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a unique utility. It’s one of the biggest in the nation, serving 10 million people, yet it’s also public. The utility is owned by the federal government and shaped by U.S. presidents — including, most recently, Joe Biden. -
Earlier this year, state lawmakers proposed a developer-backed bill to remove protections on more than half of Tennessee’s wetlands. That bill was defeated, but another version of the bill is expected by spring. -
For the first time ever, TVA will be rewarding its leaders for adding renewables and batteries to the grid, according to a report filed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week. -
Tennessee is in widespread drought for the third consecutive year.
