Kate and Aaron talk to Chris Clarke, host of the 90 Miles from Needles podcast, about the Cadiz pipeline project, a water mining project that poses a huge threat to the Mojave Desert. This project has been around in some form or another for over four decades and the latest iteration is especially insidious.

• Stopping Cadiz is good for people, the environment and our water future – Desert Sun
  Biden administration finalizes Rock Springs Plan without further changes – WyoFile
• BLM nixes Trump-era highway in Utah tortoise preserve – E&E News
• Interior Department Finalizes Framework for Future of Solar Development on Public Lands – Interior Department

• Protect Chuckwalla National Monument
• Protect Medicine Lake Highlands (Sáttítla) 
• Protect the Owyhee
• Protect Caja del Rio
• Protect the Dolores

Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss 

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Music: Purple Planet

Featured image: Cadiz Dunes, Mojave Trails National Monument; Source: Bob Wick/BLM

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