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New York's Zoning Ban Movement Fracks Big Gas
• truth-out.orgIf you haven't been following New York State's astonishing grassroots battle against fracking, the foregoing may seem humdrum. But in fact it represents a victory wrenched by unknown grassroots activists from giants of the fossil-fuel industry. While the corporations defeated in last week's judgment are only two in number, the entire industry has had its eyes on New York State, which has become the epicenter of an international struggle against unconventional gas. (By "unconventional gas" I mean not only the drilling method, but the vast infrastructure that is metastasizing from hundreds of thousands of fracking wells into America's rural countrysides.)