Environmental injustice in Tennessee

The Legislature removed an effective climate justice advocate who was representing one of the most-polluted districts in the state.

Democratic state Rep. Justin Pearson of Memphis speaks on his phone while being expelled from the state Legislature on April 6, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. Source: Seth Herald/Getty Images.

Last week, a supermajority of Republicans in Tennessee’s state House made the shocking decision to remove two of their Black Democratic colleagues from the state Le…