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Living on Earth is an environmental news and information program. Each week host Steve Curwood guides the listener through a mix of news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.

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Courts & Law

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
Energy
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

AG Shapiro investigating ‘environmental crimes’ in Pa.

The woman who sued natural gas driller Range Resources over alleged air and water contamination at her Mt. Pleasant, Pa. home, testified before an investigative grand jury.

7 years ago

A solitary corrections officer looks out from a tower at one corner of the state prison in Camp Hill. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Pa. Corrections Department settling lawsuit over contentious legal mail policy

The DOC has confirmed it will stop photocopying inmates’ legal mail and go back to giving them original copies.

7 years ago

backhoe works at a construction site
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Delaware County asks to join ‘safety seven’ suit challenging Mariner East pipeline

Delaware County is the latest public entity seeking to join the ongoing lawsuit, which alleges unsafe conditions and a need for more emergency planning.

7 years ago

In this Jan. 30, 2017, file photo, attorney Gadeir Abbas speaks during a news conference at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Washington. The federal government has acknowledged that it shares its terrorist watchlist with more than 1,400 private entities, including hospitals and universities, prompting concerns from civil libertarians that those mistakenly placed on the list could face a wide variety of hassles in their daily lives. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo, File)
Politics

Judge orders feds to list private groups receiving watchlist

Hundreds of private entities like universities and hospitals receive access to the list.

8 years ago

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is being charged with soliciting prostitution. (Mark Humphrey/AP)
NPR
National
Sports

Florida police: Robert Kraft, owner of Patriots, to face solicitation charges

Jupiter Police Chief Daniel Kerr announced the charges on Friday as part of a sting on a local spa.

8 years ago

(photo credit, Josh Luxenberg)
Radio Times
History
Race & Ethnicity

Plessy v. Ferguson: How racial segregation became law

Steve Luxenberg tells the history around Plessy v. Ferguson, the disastrous 1896 Supreme Court decision that made racial segregation legal as “separate but equal.”

Air Date: February 22, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:37
Special counsel Robert Mueller Mueller's has released the latest details about the cost of his office over the past year. (Brenadan Smialowski/AP)
Politics

Waiting for final Mueller report? It may be short on detail

The exact timing of Mueller's endgame is unclear.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Books
History
Race & Ethnicity

Plessy v. Ferguson: How racial segregation became law

STEVE LUXENBERG, a former Washington Post editor ...

8 years ago

Listen 35:30
In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, photo, workers place sections of metal wall as a new barrier is built along the Texas-Mexico border near downtown El Paso. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Radio Times
Politics

The legal challenges to Trump’s national emergency

We discuss the legal arguments and challenges to President Trump's declaration of a national emergency to get funding for a border wall.

8 years ago

Listen 13:30
Pennsylvania's corrections system tightened its legal mail security in September. The ACLU and other civil rights groups are trying to prove the move wasn't warranted. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

The trial over Pa.’s prison mail policy may be heading toward a settlement

The unprecedented security measures at the center of this trial involved giving inmates photocopies of their mail, while the prison temporarily stored the originals.

8 years ago

Graham Spanier walks to the Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, March 20, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Higher Education
Pennsylvania

Penn State ex-president Spanier’s request for appeal denied

Graham Spanier, 70, had argued the trial judge and a lower appeals court wrongly relied on a statute of limitations law that prosecutors never cited.

8 years ago

(Shirley Min/WHYY, file)
Law
New Jersey
Technology
NJ Spotlight

Push for N.J. laws to cover drones over schools, homes

Lawmakers say their big concern is that a camera could be attached to a drone by someone seeking to spy on a neighbor or to take photos without their permission.

8 years ago

A sign at the entrance to Facebook's corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Advocacy groups are asking the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation into Facebook practices that let children make in-game purchases without their parents' permission.
(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Kids
Technology

Advocates ask FTC to investigate Facebook over kids’ in-game purchases

Parents also say Facebook made it challenging to find out how to report what had happened and often would not reimburse parents.

8 years ago

Downed power lines and a battered road is what superstorm Sandy left behind as people walk off the flooded Seaside Heights island, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Couple pleads guilty to stealing Sandy relief funds

A North Jersey couple has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $153,000 by filing fraudulent applications for relief funds.

8 years ago

Visitors wait to enter the Supreme Court as a winter snow storm hits the nation's capital making roads perilous and closing most Federal offices and all major public school districts, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. The Supreme Court is ruling unanimously that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to the states. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

The end of civil asset forfeiture? U.S. Supreme Court ruling has advocates hopeful

The U.S. Supreme Court placed limits on the civil asset forfeiture, but Pennsylvania’s high court already reined in the program throughout the state.

8 years ago

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