Summary: <div id="magicdomid17" class="ace-line gutter-author-p-89578 emptyGutter"><span class="author-p-89578">Obama's new carbon pollution rules are the biggest step ever taken by the U.S. government to fight climate change—but they're not the biggest step taken by the country. The most important win is one that's taken place invisibly, in city by city battles over the last decade: a grassroots campaign that's blocked 90% of proposed coal-fired power plants (182 in all) and shut down a third of the existing coal plants in the nation—165 and counting. </span></div> <div id="magicdomid18" class="ace-line longKeep gutter-noauthor"> </div> <div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line gutter-author-p-89578 emptyGutter"><span class="author-p-89578">It's a wave of unheralded victories that set the stage for surge in renewable energy, created the political space for the new Obama policies, and could open the door to a global climate treaty that seemed impossible just a few years ago. </span></div> <div id="magicdomid20" class="ace-line longKeep gutter-noauthor"> </div> <div id="magicdomid21" class="ace-line gutter-author-p-89578 emptyGutter"><span class="author-p-89578">This episode of The Good Fight brings you inside one of the most successful environmental fights in U.S. history, the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, as recounted by the people leading it. If you think the fossil fuel industry is unbeatable, put on some headphones and make sure you're sitting down. </span></div>
