In Colorado, a group representing major oil and gas companies has filed a lawsuit against the city of Longmont’s ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Longmont residents made theirs the first city in Colorado to ban fracking last month in an overwhelming vote. But the Colorado Oil and Gas Association is seeking to challenge the ban in court, saying voters have no right to impose it. Speaking to the New York Times, a Longmont fracking opponent called the lawsuit an effort to “undermine a democratic vote in order to put a dangerous industrial activity next to homes, schools and public parks.”