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My parents grew up in closer to the city in Yonkers.

So it wasn't their usual uh choice of activity to and they definitely wouldn't like to sleep outside at least not when we were growing up but i think they might have changed their mind a little bit now but anyway i got into camping and backpacking for the first time in college i went to school at stony brook in long island And I joined the Sierra Club.

And once a semester, they would organize a backpacking trip for us to go on.

So they kind of showed us how to set up a tent, how to pack your bag and the basics.

I mean, you're talking about you know these left-wing groups are going to come in and push like green energy sales tax increases to fund windmill farms and solar farms and ev mandates and things and just think about if they put in there that they want to put in a 1.5 sales tax and then somehow they miss a decimal point and it goes to 15 we would have to rely upon 20 to 25 Democrats, depending on what the house makeup is in order to fix the tax to go down to 1.5%.

And so you're asking Democrats who are backed by the Sierra club, who are backed by environmental working groups and all these other left-wing environmental hacks to go against their own party.

And undo something like this.

And so this is the importance of this is that there are a lot of things that can go wrong here.

Your stance on data centers, are you for a complete ban? Are you for the study? Which side would you put yourself on?

And you know what is funny? Sierra Club, which actually we looked at doing, actually introducing two different bills on bringing a proposal that's there, is I, across the board, against hyperscale data centers.

Don't want them here whatsoever.

The issue that you run into is, say, if we say right off the bat, no data centers whatsoever, the hospital has a data center.

This is a large pipeline.

That's Jasmine Vazine of the Sierra Club.

She says it's part of a broader pipeline build out nationwide to support data centers and gas exports.

So this is not for ratepayers to have more reliable, affordable energy.

It's put everybody around the same table.

I've been in a meeting with Sierra Club people, me, a progressive Democrat, very much Republicans, and then a woman with Jesus is my Lord, Trump is my president on her shirt.

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Now in Fontana, I understand in 2021, the city council approved a major mega warehouse project.

And then shortly thereafter, the Sierra Club filed suit as did our Attorney General's office, Rob Bonta's office, because the environmental impact report was nowhere near sufficient to mitigate the many, many health risks for that community.

So they did look at adding things such as more hybrid or electric vehicles, that isn't though going to take away the problem so much of all the trucks coming and going.

They added solar panels on the warehouses, things like that.

Iowa is reversing its progress on clean energy thanks to significantly increased energy needs from data centers.

That's according to Brian Campbell, the executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility, who spoke to reporters alongside the Iowa chapter of the Sierra Club.

He says generators that data centers can bring on site can be detrimental to the environment and surrounding communities.

Often they're using inefficient turbines, repurposing turbines from jet engines and other things.

The official argument against Prop 45 is signed by the Coalition for Clean Air, Clean Water Action, and California Environmental Voters.

They're joined by the National Wildlife Federation, the Sierra Club, California Environmental Justice Alliance, California Communities Against Toxic, Physicians for Social Responsibility in Los Angeles, the American Nurses Association of California, and California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice.

But it isn't just environmentalists.

The California Democratic Party opposes Prop 45.