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Over the past few days, three different fossil fuel pipeline projects have, in effect, been shut down at least for now.聽The details vary, but each case connects to by local citizens and others pushing for consideration of environmental risks.

On Sunday, Duke Energy and Dominion Energy canceled their planned Atlantic Coast Pipeline for transporting natural gas into North Carolina and Virginia, as opposition and lawsuits pushed up the project鈥檚 cost.

On Monday, a federal judge ruled that the Dakota Access Pipeline must shut down until a new environmental review is completed. The Monitor鈥檚 Henry Gass covered efforts by Native Americans to prevent this conduit for oil in 2016. Also on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration鈥檚 effort to continue construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Nebraska.聽The final outcome of these two pipelines remains to be determined, probably after the coming presidential election.

Even as this moment shows the power of determined individuals, it may also reveal an economic shift. The costs of greenhouse gas emissions to human livelihoods and the planet鈥檚 climate are gaining recognition. Meanwhile in a state like North Carolina, solar power as an efficient energy source.聽

Dallas Goldtooth, a Lower Sioux tribe member who helped lead opposition to the Dakota pipeline, on Tuesday from Andrew McDowell,聽an official at the European Investment Bank: 鈥淚nvesting in new fossil fuel infrastructure,鈥� Mr. McDowell said, 鈥渋s increasingly an economically unsound decision.鈥�