I think this shows that in terms of effective political action, it can only happen at the local, county and maybe State level.
The incentives for politicians are all wrong. IF someone goes from the State Legislature or County Executive to, say, Member of Congress, it would count as a promotion.
But a backbench member of congress, or even the leadership, in either the minority or majority, couldn’t necessarily stop this project.
But the local people did.
Here is the member of congress. He opposed this thing, and was trying via Federal legislation to stop this.
Obviously he had and will have no success. If he wants to do something real, he should have stayed in local politics.