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Pass Ordinances
Carefully-crafted ordinances such as for land-use or noise based in the local Comprehensive Plan are laws with legal teeth
Jefferson County, FL passed a land-use ordinance to keep bottling plants out of the Floridan Aquifer
Even FERC says they try whenever possible not to override local ordinances
And PA and NY Supreme Court decisions indicate maybe FERC can't even do that