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As environmental lawyer and author Gus Speth once said, "Politicians ride the waves. People's movements make the waves."

The film never flinches from the complex connections between economic and environmental problems.

The ruling is a boon to the more than 170 municipalities in New York that have already passed bans or moratoriums.

Coal-fired power plants are responsible for about 40 percent of United States' carbon emissions. That pollution would be regulated for the first time under the new proposed rules.

Filters that contain fungi with powerful antibiotic properties can help remove harmful bacteria from water.

Signs of change are appearing in the United States military as well.

The decision is the largest single win for the movement to push institutions to divest from fossil fuels. And student activists say they'll keep the pressure on Stanford to divest from oil and natural gas as well as from coal.