Weekend Voices 1/30/10
Producer/Host: Amy Browne The company responsible for cleaning up hundreds of thousands of tons of soil contaminated by mercury at the former Holtrachem chemical plant in Orrington, is asking the state...
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Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco Issue: Environmental and Social Justice Program Topic: Penobscot River Restoration Project, with John Banks of the Penobscot Nation: Great Works at Old Town going...
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Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco Issue: Environmental and Social Justice Program Topic: Penobscot Nation Natural Resources director on the work to protect the health of the Penobscot River Watershed...
View ArticleWERU News Report 4/30/14
Producer/Host: Amy Browne Segment 1: It’s not unusual to hear of small businesses struggling, and eventually being forced to close, especially in this economy—but it IS unusual when a community rallies...
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Producer/Host: Amy Browne Segment 1: What happens when you cross Governor LePage with the Koch Brothers? Child safety advocates say that question was answered yesterday as Maine’s Department of...
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Producer/Host: Amy Browne Segment 1: The Natural Resources Council of Maine announced yesterday that they have developed a series of maps that depict the effects of rising sea levels on the Maine...
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Producer/Host: Amy Browne Segment 1: Maine People’s Alliance and the Natural Resources Defense Council went back to court today in their years-long battle to force the corporations responsible for the...
View ArticleWERU News Report 7/8/14
Producer/Host: Amy Browne In what many believe to be the latest threat to the Penobscot Nation and the river ecosystem, a new landfill is being proposed in the Greenbush/Argyle area. The organization...
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Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco Issue: Environmental and Social Justice Program Topic: Penobscot Nation v Mills, with Chief Francis and Local Organizing to Withdraw Orono from the Case Key...
View ArticleRadioActive 3/26/15
Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco Issue: Environmental and Social Justice Program Topic: Orono Council Committee Votes to Withdraw from Penobscot Nation v Mills Key Discussion Points: a) On March...
View ArticleBangor Area Commons 6/4/15
Producer/Editor/Host: Amy Browne Audio recorded by: John Greenman In 2012, Maine’s attorney general informed the Penobscot Nation that the state had decided that the Penobscot reservation didn’t...
View ArticleWERU News Report 6/17/15
Producer/Host: Amy Browne Engineer: John Greenman The latest chapter in a story we’ve been reporting on for nearly 15 years played out in Federal Court today, as lawyers for both sides in the Penobscot...
View ArticleWabanaki Windows 9/15/15
Producer/Host: Donna Loring Engineer: Amy Browne Issue: Environmental issues and update on River case Program Topic: Environment and Wabanaki Struggles for Clean Water Key Discussion Points: a)...
View ArticleRadioActive 10/1/15
Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco Issue: Environmental and Social Justice Program Topic: Penobscot Nation Chief Francis on Penobscot Nation v Mills and Meeting in DC with President Obama Key...
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Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco Issue: Environmental and Social Justice Program Topic: Penobscot Nation v Mills : Reactions to Court Hearing Key Discussion Points: 1) Yesterday, US District Court...
View ArticleRadioActive 12/17/15
Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco Issue: Environmental and Social Justice Program Topic: Penobscot Nation v Mills : Decision at US District Court Key Discussion Points: 1) Yesterday, US District...
View ArticleMaine Currents 1/6/15
Producer/Host: Amy Browne Today we do a 2015 year in review with clips from stories about Divest UMaine, an investigation by the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, Kim Ervin Tucker, scientists...
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Producer/Host: Amy Browne Audio contributed by John Greenman Segment 1: Bill Farrell, a University of Maine Ph.D. Candidate and Senior Advisor on Special Projects, for the international nonprofit Mercy...
View ArticleWabanaki Windows 2/16/16
Producer/Host: Donna Loring Engineer: Amy Browne Issue: River Sovereignty Program Topic: Penobscot Nation V Mills et els. Key Discussion Points: Case background Court findings Choices moving forward...
View ArticleWERU Special: Orland Dam Removal Public Forum 6/3/16
Producer/Host: Amy Browne Production Assistance: John Greenman Today we have a special report on the proposal to remove the Orland Dam – a decision that regardless of which way it goes, will likely...
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