Organizers and members of the Central New York United for Community Benefits Coalition—composed of about 25 mostly local advocacy groups—tell WIRED that they welcome the project. They also appreciate that Micron has already pledged to hire locally and address some of the physical and social impacts of its construction. But the coalition members believe oversight is lacking and that Micron could get away with polluting the environment and worsening the region’s economic inequality. But the New York coalition is basing its campaign on similar efforts by other US organizations. A database compiled by Columbia Law School shows dozens of benefits agreements for major projects over the past decade.