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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The Tennessee Valley Authority is raising the cost of electricity this fall for the second year in a row. -
Experts say understanding what is possible during major flooding events is critical to prepare for flooding across the state in our new climate reality. -
Farmers, landowners and government agencies have been using treated sewage to fertilize land in Tennessee for decades, but the practice is being increasingly scrutinized: Sewage sludge can be contaminated with toxic chemical compounds known as PFAS. The latest evidence comes from northeastern Tennessee. -
For some Tennessee state officials, conservation advocates and business leaders, protecting wetlands — semi-aquatic ecosystems like swamps, bogs and bottomland forests — should be the highest priority. -
Tennessee is expected to be second for the lowest amount of solar installed by 2027 compared to six other Southeastern states, according to a new report by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. -
The Tennessee Valley Authority has been rapidly expanding fossil fuel infrastructure across the region and is on track to construct eight methane gas plants by the end of the decade. The buildout is part of a fossil fuel system that starts with fracking and ends with burning — a system that affects the planet and can harm the health of people living nearby. -
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced last Tuesday that it intends to build a methane gas plant in Kingston, requiring a 122-mile pipeline in six counties between Nashville and Knoxville. -
Tennessee lawmakers are considering legislation this year that would require public access to maps of floods and landslides across the state. -
In Tennessee, wetlands cover just 3% of the state, and more than half of these ecosystems may soon be in the path of construction. -
Nearly half of Tennessee is in extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
