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On the recordJanuary 11, 2022
We had a pipeline here in Memphis, the Byhalia pipeline that proposed an oil pipeline in predominantly minority communities, and it was a heroic effort that led to their decision to not go forth with the pipeline because it went straight through the minority community's low-income, less powerful communities rather than others where it could have gone.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen discusses the impact of the Byhalia pipeline on minority communities in Memphis.

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