County Commission halts long-delayed Millington-area solar farm
“There’s nothing that changes the lived reality of having to sit alongside this,” said Shelby County Commissioner Britney Thornton, who voted against the solar farm. “And I cannot imagine moving by choice to Millington to have everything that made it an attractive move for me taken away.” (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
It was a victory for nearby residents, who had rallied against Graceland Solar and its parent company, RWE Renewables, since the beginning.
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Keely Brewer is a Report for America corps member covering environmental impacts on communities of color in Memphis. She is working in partnership with the Ag & Water Desk, a sustainable reporting network aimed at telling water and agriculture stories across the Mississippi River Basin.
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