Cassandra Stephenson
Cassandra Stephenson covers issues impacting rural West Tennessee as a Report for America corps member at The Tennessee Lookout.
Tennessee Lookout is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.
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Last year, more than 45,000 Tennessee families saved a combined $63.9 million in federal tax credits for improving their homes’ energy efficiency or installing clean energy sources like solar power. -
The World Wildlife Fund sees farms in the mid-Mississippi delta as ripe with opportunity to become a new mecca for commercial-scale American produce. -
Federal grants have been issued to more than 1,500 Black and minority farmers, ranchers and forest landowners in Tennessee who experienced discrimination in United States Department of Agriculture farm lending programs prior to January 2021.
