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Cool Solutions: Stories of climate action from the bottom up


May 9, 2019

Story of how residents of South Portland Maine, a town of 25,000, stopped the export of tar sands from their port. We follow the story from a few people in a living room to overflow attendance at city council and the council's vote to ban tar sands and stand firm against Big Oil's lawsuit. Moving testimony by children, grandparents, fishermen and others. A legal expert explains Home Rule and how a city at the end of a pipeline has the power to protect itself from harm.