The long-awaited decision enables the 705-mile (1,134km) line to go forward. It would link abundant wind resources in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandle regions with the mid-South and Southeast US via Arkansas and a connection at Memphis, Tennessee.

It would supply power to more than 1 million homes.

Clean Line must meet milestones before the federal government would exercise eminent domain as a last resort to allow the developer to get right-of-way along the proposed route.

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