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As one of the many community members in Colorado who has fought fracking, thank you for this incredibly relevant and illuminating article. It articulates our daily experience here in Colorado's front range with near perfection. Lafayette, the community I live in, has been sued by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association after we banned fracking here in 2013, no different than communities were sued after banning the use of cyanide in gold mining by the Colorado Supreme Court in 2009. Its clear that these issues are connected, and that if we cannot protect ourselves where we live, well then where can we? And because we have a common experience of this type of state/corporate collusion against our communities and issues, we have, with the help of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, crafted a state ballot initiative that address the very type of state preemption that you discuss. It is called the Colorado Community Rights Amendment and the campaign for its enactment is being built now. Community Rights Over Corporate Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuEcIPvrN00 CoCommRights (at) gmail.com