How A Small Town Won An Unlikely Victory Against Big Oil — YES! Magazine

If the world is to remain livable, we must keep 80 percent of the known fossil fuel reserves in the ground. Yet giant companies carry those reserves on their books as the basis of their future profits. We all know our politics suffer from the outsized influence of powerful corporate interests. Is it really possible for citizens to prevent the use of those vast resources?

The victory in the small town of Longview says maybe it is. READ MORE