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V Interesting with V Spehar

Ohio Citizens Are Standing up for Wind and Solar

V Interesting with V Spehar

Lemonada Media

News

4.9882 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Richland County, Ohio used to be a major manufacturing hub. Now, as the plants have closed, residents are looking to renewable energy to revive jobs and development. There’s just one problem: their board of county commissioners issued a blanket ban on large-scale solar and wind projects last summer, bringing those efforts to a halt. Now, residents are waging a historic fight to overturn the ban. In this episode, host Gloria Riviera speaks with two locals behind the campaign: Brian McPeek, Business Manager and Financial Secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and Shayna Fritz, the Executive Director for the Ohio Conservative Energy Forum. Together, they break down what’s at stake, from job development and homegrown energy to the rights of farmers and landowners to earn a living from their property, and how Richland County can be a model for communities across the country to shape their energy futures. To learn more about the campaign to reject the ban on large scale solar and wind in Richland County, visit nobanonpropertyrights.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Lemonado.

0:02.7

Hi, it's Julia Louis Dreyfus here, and I can't wait for you to hear our new episode of Wiser

0:15.6

than Me with Cindy Lauper on Amazon Music.

0:19.0

Cindy may be a girl who just wants to have fun, but for 40 years she has brought

0:23.5

playfulness and a dash of punk to some serious activism.

0:28.1

We talk about her lifelong LGBTQ-plus advocacy, her astonishing music career, and pick up a whole

0:35.4

lot of wisdom along the way.

0:37.1

Listen now only on Amazon music

0:39.3

included with Prime.

0:43.8

Hi, it's Gloria Rivera. You might know me from Lemonada Media's No One is coming to save us and

0:53.4

good things. I'm dropping into

0:55.3

your feed today because I wanted to share an episode of Good Things that feels especially

1:00.1

timely and hopeful. On Good Things, we focus on the people who aren't just talking about what's broken.

1:06.2

They're actually doing something about it. Each episode, we take on big, complicated issues facing this country

1:13.0

and look at them through a solutions lens. We dig into everything from climate solutions

1:19.1

to literacy to protecting democracy, while always asking, who's rolling up their sleeves,

1:25.0

and what can we learn from them? In this episode, I'm joined by Brian McPeak from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

1:32.0

and Shana Fritz from the Ohio Conservative Energy Forum to zoom in on the manufacturing industry in Richland County, Ohio.

1:40.4

Together, we break down what's at stake in Ohio, from job development and homegrown energy

1:45.9

to the rights of farmers and landowners to earn a living from their property, and how Richland

1:51.4

County can be a model for communities across the country to shape their energy futures.

1:56.9

If you're looking for smart, grounded conversations about how change really happens, I hope you'll check out good things. Just search for it wherever you're listening right now.

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