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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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. -
U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday, citing concerns about a local spike in PFAS pollution linked to a West Virginia factory. -
Drinking water utilities are preparing to meet future federal safety regulations on forever chemicals. Here’s how Louisville Water Co. is approaching the challenge. -
For transgender youth in Kentucky, a new Supreme Court ruling ensures they’ll remain unable to get gender-affirming hormone therapy in their home state. -
Kentucky may quit a program that cut dangerous ozone pollution by making Louisville residents buy cleaner but pricier gas. Right now, residents can weigh in.
