Opinion | The Boring Bill in Tennessee That Everyone Should Be Watching - The New York Times

… That boring energy infrastructure bill, which passed the Tennessee Senate last Thursday, would let the state override local laws blocking fossil-fuel projects in their communities. In other words, if this bill becomes law, the state could allow an oil company to run a pipeline through a city over the objections of the city itself. This may seem like a picayune matter with no relevance outside the state of Tennessee, but it's exactly the kind of bill that ought to attract national attention — not because it's happening in Tennessee but because it's happening, or is poised to happen, in red-state legislatures across the country, according to the Climate Reality Project…

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/28/opinion/tennessee-premption-oil-pipeline-bill.html