Local Grassroots Efforts Netting Results

In the last couple of years, such efforts have gotten results:

"Anytime you get people together, if they're educated about the facts and they make what they think is the right decision based on the information that have, that's a good thing," says Jonathan Hill, director of Citizens for a Sound Economy.

Hill says citizen activists are recognizing they can make a difference.

Neighbors fighting the Coker plan say their coalition has grown from 35 people to more than 1,000.