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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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Philadelphia City Solicitor Sozi Tulante.
Health

Philly targets big pharma in suit over opioid epidemic

'This epidemic can be traced to the defendants' false and deceptive marketing to doctors — and to the public — that these drugs were safe and effective,' says city solicitor.

8 years ago

A mailing from insurer Aetna breached the privacy of thousands of HIV positive members.
NewsWorks Tonight
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Aetna agrees to pay $17M in massive HIV privacy breach

Settlement funds will go to 12,000 Aetna subscribers. The fact they were taking HIV medication was revealed through an envelope window in correspondence from the insurer.

8 years ago

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In this 1918 photo made available by the Library of Congress, volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to influenza patients in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, used as a temporary hospital. (Edward A.
Science

Century after pandemic, science takes its best shot at flu

There's no way to predict what strain of the shape-shifting flu virus could trigger another pandemic or, given modern medical tools, how bad it might be.

8 years ago

Luke Dunn and Nick Hale spend their winter days driving around Kensington trying to get homeless people into shelter.
Health

Homeless shelter planned for opioid-afflicted Kensington won’t be ready this winter

The city promised in December it would open 30 more beds in the neighborhood by January, but city officials now estimate the space won’t open until late spring.

8 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

DEP fines natural gas company $1.7M for drilling violations

8 years ago

Trees cut on a Susquehanna County property in March 2016 to make way for the proposed Constitution Pipeline. The company says it will fight a FERC order upholding New York State's denial of a permit for the project.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

After new setback, Constitution Pipeline says it will fight FERC order

8 years ago

Jerome Shabazz runs the Overbook Environmental Education Center in Philadelphia. Shabazz says he has used federal dollars from the EPA's environmental justice office to raise awareness about water quality and toxins like lead.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

MLK’s environmental justice legacy threatened by Trump administration cuts

8 years ago

This interior view of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module shows Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot, during the lunar landing mission. This picture was taken by Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, prior to the moon landing.
Skytalk
Science

Happy Birthday, Buzz!

Of the remaining cohort of Earthlings privileged to set foot on the moon, let’s extend 88th birthday greetings this week to Buzz Al ...

Air Date: January 15, 2018

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Shalon Irving, a public health researcher who worked for the Centers for Disease Control and and Prevention who was studying the physical toll that discrimination exacts on physical health, died just a few weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Soleil. Black women are 243% more likely than white women to die during or shortly after childbirth.
NPR
Health

Making the case that discrimination is bad for your health

Arline Geronimus coined the term 'weathering' to describe how health problems of marginalized people can be caused by stresses of their daily life.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania's wind industry boomed through 2012, but development of new wind farms has slowed in the years since. (vaxomatic via Flickr)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

A surge, then a fade for Pennsylvania’s wind industry

More than two dozen wind farms popped up across the state leading up to 2012, but only one in the years since.

8 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Judge fines environmental attorneys $52,000 for ‘frivolous’ injection well suit

The case is centered on a 2014 ban and a subsequent municipal charter adopted by Grant Township that banned fracking wastewater injection projects.

8 years ago

New Jersey and Delaware have  state-supported needle exchange programs to cut down on the transmission of diseases. (WHYY, file)
Health

Harm reduction leaders call on Gov. Wolf to make needle exchanges legal in Pa.

In the wake of the emergency declaration, harm reduction leaders are calling on Gov. Wolf to make needle exchanges legal in Pennsylvania.

8 years ago

power plant
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Settlement requires coal plants to get permits with tighter pollution controls

The settlement pertains to 10 coal-fired power plants around the state that have been operating on expired water pollution permits for years — in one case for 17 years.

8 years ago

Penn Medicine's latest acquisition in Plainsboro, New Jersey, will be known as Penn Medicine Princeton Health. (Penn Medicine rendering)
Health

Amid regulatory uncertainty, Penn Medicine acquires Princeton HealthCare

The University Medical Center of Princeton will become the sixth hospital in the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

8 years ago

The Pulse
Health

Making Cities Work

By 2030 about 60 percent of people will live in urban centers. We flock to cities for their energy and op ...

Air Date: January 12, 2018

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