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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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. -
While Tennessee has seen deadly floods, ice storms and lingering droughts in recent years, wind was the source of destruction for every disaster in 2023, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which estimates that these thunderstorms or tornadoes caused between $2 and $5 billion in damages across the state. -
Clean technology manufacturing is exploding in Tennessee. Planned investments in the construction of electric vehicle, energy storage and solar panel materials were worth three times more than any other sector combined in the past year. -
The Inflation Reduction Act has been called the most significant climate law in U.S. history, with promises to radically shift electricity from fossil fuels to clean sources. In Tennessee, the legislation could shape a new wave of clean energy manufacturing, but it has been absent in the state’s electricity plans. -
In July, 44% of Earth’s oceans were experiencing marine heat waves. That figure could increase to half in September and October, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and that comes with risks even for inland states like Tennessee. -
Eating plants is far better for the planet than eating animal products, and a new study shows just how much. -
Transmission lines carry electricity from power plants to cities across Tennessee. Transmission lines can also carry electricity across the country — if utilities allow it. -
On Thursday, Tennessee joined about 20 other states in suing manufacturers of PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. -
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Tennessee has 300 leaky, ‘orphaned’ oil and gas wells. A handful are about to be plugged for safety.Abandoned gas wells — essentially deep holes in Earth’s crust that slowly spit out methane — will soon be capped in one of Tennessee’s federally-protected lands.
