State Government Reporter
New
Posted
13 March 2025
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Nashville, Tennessee
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Tennessee Lookout
Rural West Tennessee is becoming a strategic concern to the state, through the construction of Ford Motor Co.'s BlueOval City, a $5.6 billion, 3,600-acre "automotive manufacturing ecosystem" that is proposed to bring 11,000 jobs to what has been a farming area for the last 200 years. A focus on the impacts of new industry, including industrial poultry operations on rural Tennesseans, both environmentally and economically.