Not everyone is saying “not in my backyard”:

On Tuesday, voters in Youngstown, Ohio, gave the fracking industry carte blanche to continue pumping chemicals into the ground beneath them and pumping natural gas out. A city charter amendment that would have outlawed hydraulic fracturing in the city was rejected by voters, with the unofficial final vote tally showing 3,821 votes against and 2,880 in favor. The ballot measure would also have banned new pipelines in the city and prevented oil-field waste from being transported through the city.

Philip Bump notices that these battles are increasingly happening in municipalities rather than at the state or federal level:

Dryden sits in the Finger Lakes region of New York, just east of Cayuga Lake. It’s a region that’s dependent on tourists who come for the beautiful foliage in the fall and pristine water in the summer. Which is why opinions on fracking in the…