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A Small Town Just Came Up With A Surprisingly Simple Way To Stop Fracking Dead In Its Tracks

Imagine: Someone comes to your home and tells you that the place is now theirs and there’s nothing you can do. That’s what happened to the people in this little mountain town. Little by little, depressed neighbor reached out to depressed neighbor. And when two local lawyers had an “aha!” moment — at 4:51 in…

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