Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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Nov 1, 2026
Dane WigingtonHOST
And what about that pesky planetary pollution problem that's threatening all life on Earth? Just pretend it isn't so to help the oligarch oil barons who, for the record, are also neck deep in climate engineering everything.
Dane WigingtonHOST
With that in mind, from NRDC.org, EPA moves to gut oil.
Dane WigingtonHOST
Methane rules.
Dane WigingtonHOST
Yeah, loot, plunder, pillage, pollute, and poison until nothing is left.
Michelle NorrisGUEST
that it is an event that takes place over a season.
Michelle NorrisGUEST
And so some of that work that has been done by Natasha Brown, by the NRDC across the country is now really playing out.
Michelle NorrisGUEST
But part of this could be attributed to behavioral psychology and loss aversion, that people will react more to something that they are about to lose than what they're about to gain.
Michelle NorrisGUEST
There's a whole body of research that shows this.
Kaylee WellsCORRESPONDENT
Residents are also worried about pollution pollution from the data center's backup generators, which run on diesel.
Kaylee WellsCORRESPONDENT
And that will impact more than just the closest residents, says Rob Friedman of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Rob FriedmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's not just the 150-plus households that are in direct proximity, but it's also, you know, you have schools, you have houses of worship, you have other community sites.
Kaylee WellsCORRESPONDENT
Those concerns don't seem to have swayed local elected officials.
Kaely WellsCORRESPONDENT
Residents are also worried about pollution pollution from the data center's backup generators, which run on diesel.
Kaely WellsCORRESPONDENT
And that will impact more than just the closest residents, says Rob Friedman of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Rob FriedmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's not just the 150-plus households that are in direct proximity, but it's also, you know, you have schools, you have houses of worship, you have other community sites that
Kaely WellsCORRESPONDENT
Those concerns don't seem to have swayed local elected officials.
Chris ClarkeHOST
And that court ruled in their favor and put the project back to square one, forcing the landfill developers to release a new and improved EIR in 1997.
Chris ClarkeHOST
That court case was later reversed by the Court of Appeal, and the Sharpeeds worked with conservation organizations, including the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice and the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Parks Conservation Association and the Sierra Club, challenging the project under federal law.
Chris ClarkeHOST
In order for the project to proceed, the federal government would have had to trade some of its land in the area, and that opened the door for a court case against it.
Chris ClarkeHOST
Eventually, after more than two decades of opposition and litigation by the Sharpeeds and others, the landfill proposal was abandoned in 2014, and that was a huge victory for Joshua Tree National Park, the benefits of which we are still enjoying today.
Stephen KohlerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So just from a budgeting standpoint, that's something that would be helpful for prospective homeowners to know.
Karen HendricksHOST
Close to three quarters of U.S. states have some form of flood risk disclosure law, according to a 2025 analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Karen HendricksHOST
Now Pennsylvania is among them.
Karen HendricksHOST
Utility regulators have rejected a proposal that would have saved customers of Pennsylvania's largest electric utility tens of millions of dollars every year on their electricity bills.
Robinson MeyerHOST
But what's interesting is that just about everyone involved agrees the bill's power grid policies are really, really good.
Robinson MeyerHOST
The Natural Resources Defense Council described this section as one of the bill's, quote, green flags, as opposed to what it saw as its red flags.
Robinson MeyerHOST
And even John Podesta, the former Biden climate advisor who's been more critical of the proposal, said the grid section was, quote, pretty strong, unquote, and told our reporter that...
Robinson MeyerHOST
this section was actually worth passing the bill over if negotiators could fix some of his other criticisms.
Rob FriedmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You also have higher rates of heart disease.
Kaylee WellsCORRESPONDENT
Rob Friedman is with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Rob FriedmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That facility is going to perpetuate and exacerbate that burden.
Kaylee WellsCORRESPONDENT
He says the culprit is the massive backup generators, which burn diesel when they're running.
Rob FriedmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You also have higher rates of heart disease.
Kaely WellsCORRESPONDENT
Rob Friedman is with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Rob FriedmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That facility is going to perpetuate and exacerbate that burden.
Kaely WellsCORRESPONDENT
He says the culprit is the massive backup generators, which burn diesel when they're running.
Michele NorrisGUEST
But when you're looking at those early days, voting numbers, I think what you're seeing there is a dividend playing off.
Michele NorrisGUEST
And people like LaTosha Brown in Georgia, people like the NRDC working across the country, trying to help people understand that voting is not a one-day event, that it's something that you have to think about outside of Election Day, that early voting is something you should think about bringing your family members along.
Michele NorrisGUEST
That's what you're seeing here as the result of that.
Michele NorrisGUEST
It's not just a reaction.
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