That sounds pretty utopian to me, coming from Colorado, where our gov is in the pocket of fracking, and even our modest "setback" initiative, trying to get fracking wells to be required to be a certain distance from homes, schools, and hospitals for health reasons - gets major blowback (and was completely thrown out and didn't even make it to ballot a couple years back). Where we passed a green roof initiative last election but the city immediately went into killing it by a thousand cuts after because they said it was "too much of a burden." Etc. Ugh.
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