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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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People were evicted from an encampment at Kensington and Tulip Streets in May. The city of Philadelphia released its “Roadmap to Homes” Wednesday, a plan to reduce street homelessness by 5 percent every year for the next five years. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Homelessness

Philadelphia aims to decrease homeless ranks by 5 percent annually over 5 years

'Roadmap to Homes' calls for expanding the city’s stock of housing and job opportunities — and improving communication and coordination with hundreds of service providers.

8 years ago

A truck delivers fracking wastewater to a Susquehanna County recycling center
Pennsylvania

Environmentalists urge Gov. Murphy to ban fracking waste from entering New Jersey

New Jersey lawmakers passed a bill in 2014 to ban fracking waste, but former Gov. Chris Christie vetoed it.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
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Turzai calls window for sex abuse lawsuits ‘a compromise’

Pennsylvania law currently requires victims to sue before they turn 30.

8 years ago

 This 2009 handout photo released by a friend of Xiyue Wang, shows Xiyue Wang at his apartment in Hong Kong, China. (Friend of Xiyue Wang via AP)
NewsWorks Tonight
International
New Jersey

U.N. group calls on Iran to release Princeton graduate student

Xiyue Wang's wife created the petition that led the U.N. group to consider his case. She said she has struggled over two years to maintain a normal life for her son.

8 years ago

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Elections

Trump OKs sanctions for foreigners who meddle in elections

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday authorizing sanctions against foreigners who meddle in U.S. elections.

8 years ago

President Trump tosses paper towels into a crowd in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria hit the island in 2017.
(Evan Vucci/AP)
NPR
Infrastructure
Public Safety

FACT CHECK: ‘Puerto Rico was an incredible, unsung success’?

Last month, the death toll for Hurricane Maria was just revised from 64 to 2,975.

8 years ago

This undated file photo provided by HHS' Administration for Children and Families shows the shelter used to house unaccompanied foreign children in Tornillo, Texas. The U.S. government says the West Texas tent shelter will remain open through the end of the year. A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, that the facility will be expanded to 3,800 beds from its initial capacity of 360 beds. (HHS' Administration for Children and Families via AP, File)
Immigration
Kids

Government to expand, extend Texas tent shelter for children

The U.S. government will expand its tent shelter for immigrant minors crossing the southwest border to 3,800 beds and keep it open through the end of this year.

8 years ago

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Radio Times
Law
Politics

The Most Dangerous Branch

Guest: David A. Kaplan Barring some unforeseen circumstance, all indications point to the confirmation of Brett K ...

Air Date: September 12, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:57
 Mike Donahue of Stanhope, New Jersey, stands with a 346-pound male bear that he killed as he waits at the Whittingham Wildlife Management Area for check-in during last year's bear  hunt.(AP file photo)
Environment
New Jersey

Banning bear hunting on New Jersey’s public lands may have little effect

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s’ executive order that puts state-owned lands off limits for this year’s bear hunt ...

8 years ago

Gymnast Jessica Howard, who was sexually abused by USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, speaks on behalf of the victims of Catholic priests, urging Pennsylvania to adopt a law that would suspend the statute of limitations in claims of child sexual abuse. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Kids
Pennsylvania

Survivors of child sex abuse again push Pa. to suspend statute of limitations

Lawmakers are also urged to provide a two-year window for past victims to file civil charges retroactively.

8 years ago

Listen 1:47
People drive over a drawbridge in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., as they evacuate the area in advance of Hurricane Florence, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. Florence exploded into a potentially catastrophic hurricane Monday as it closed in on North and South Carolina, carrying winds up to 140 mph (220 kph) and water that could wreak havoc over a wide stretch of the eastern United States later this week. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

‘Big and vicious’: Hurricane Florence closes in on Carolinas

Florence is expected to make landfall late Thursday or early Friday.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks during the 9/11 Flight 93 memorial service in Shanksville, Pa., Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Trump salutes sacrifice of Flight 93 passengers, crew at 9/11 ceremony

'We honor their sacrifice by pledging to never flinch in the face of evil, and to do whatever it takes to keep America safe,' president tells crowd

8 years ago

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The President's Daily Briefing, or PDB, is the top-secret intelligence report the CIA presents to the president every weekday. The book shown here is for a briefing delivered to President George W. Bush in 2002.
(Damian Dovarganes/AP)
NPR
National

Sept. 11 revealed the importance and limits of the president’s daily briefing

That landmark day captured both the critical importance — and the frustrating limits — of the President's Daily Briefing, or PDB.

8 years ago

Left: Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)
Right: Scott Wallace (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Elections
Pennsylvania

Fitzpatrick running as moderate, trying to hold onto Bucks seat for GOP

With millions of dollars pouring into the district, Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District race is one of the races to watch during the 2018 midterm elections.

8 years ago

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An original 1779 minute book of Pennsylvania’s unicameral Revolutionary General Assembly has returned to Pennsylvania for safekeeping in the Pennsylvania State Archives. (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission)
History
Military
Pennsylvania

Long-lost Revolutionary War-era book returns to Pennsylvania

Historians are always a bit skeptical about items supposedly from the 1770s because of all the reproductions out there, but this volume proved to be the real deal.

8 years ago

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