Politics www.eenews.net Environmental justice: Memphis pipeline rekindles eminent domain fight Many states give pipeline companies power to condemn land. A fight in Memphis is testing whether that's a recipe for environmental injustice.
mlk50.com Eminent domain lets pipeline developers take land, pay little, say Black property owners Joseph Owens turned down an offer of $3,000 from an oil pipeline company to buy easements on his property. So the company took Owens to court, claimed eminent domain and took them anyway.
