Morgan Watkins
Investigative Reporter, Health & EnvironmentMorgan covers health and the environment for LPM's Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. She hails from Florida, where she started her career covering city and county government at the Gainesville Sun. Louisville has been her home since 2016.
She covered national and state politics, as well as higher education, for The Courier Journal before joining LPM.
Email Morgan at mwatkins@lpm.org and follow her on Bluesky @morganwatkins.lpm.org.
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A new plan to protect and restore the waters of the Ohio River Basin recommends dozens of regional solutions to tackle interlinked environmental problems. -
A 308-mile stretch of the Ohio River earned the title of National Water Trail this summer. KyCIR’s Morgan Watkins rowed a slice of the path. Here’s what she heard. -
The National Wildlife Federation and University of Louisville researchers worked on an ambitious new roadmap to restore the Ohio River Basin. -
Louisville Metro Government want to run on clean electricity by 2030. But how? Officials considered buying renewable energy credits in a western Kentucky solar farm. -
The $1 million grant aimed to help people exposed to toxic air pollution near Rubbertown. -
The state's opioid commission is changing the way it tracks how millions in settlement money get spent. -
Kentucky cities and counties are supposed to tell the state how they spend their opioid settlement funds, but compliance has been scattershot. -
Louisville’s drinking water utility says a West Virginia factory’s PFAS pollution could cause problems locally. The facility faces a lawsuit for violating its permit. -
KyCIR disputed Louisville Metro Government’s handling of its request for records on a proposed development at Joe Creason Park. Here’s what the attorney general decided. -
We examined where city inspectors found safety issues in public pools at apartments, parks and other places.
