This has been a good week. It saw the end of the Byhalia Connection pipeline, which was slated to go beneath a fragile sand aquifer that supplies much of the drinking water for Shelby County, where Memphis is located. The pipeline also went through a historic black neighborhood; residents there were told the company was taking the “point of least resistance.”
A coalition of opponents, including Al Gore, the Sierra Club, Danny Glover, and Justin Timberlake, with the Southern Environmental Law Center taking the lead, succeeded in stopping the pipeline.
Time for my happy dance.
Info for this post is from Margaret Renkl, “A Rare Victory Against Environmental Racism, New York Times, (Aug. 18, 2021), p. A19.
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