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Times deeper with tales of Wallace listen vigilante justice on the open ocean with Poser Prize winning author Ian Rubina I got a call from a source at Interpol who said they had heard about this thing going on got an article and it's the longest small coastal chase on the seat and it doesn't imply law enforcement is this conservation group or Chase or this Interpol Most Wanted chip and. I said wow that sounds epic let me try to see if I can get on board also restored of ocean farming for a sustainable food source and ocean how we can help from the surface vertically downwards right next to muscles and muscle songs scallop simple internets. And that's good because it has a small footprint very much like vertical farming in urban areas we'll have those stories and more this week on living on her stick around. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jenny Herbst the f.b.i. Says it is investigating Friday's fatal shooting at a u.s. Navy base in Pensacola Florida as an act of terrorism agents say the designation gives them more tools for their investigation the gunman a 21 year old Saudi Air Force trainee purchased the handgun he used legally and Florida's governor Rhonda Santa says that news is concerning I had always thought that foreign nationals except for certain law enforcement just just were not allowed to purchase firearms but he says the gunman apparently took advantage of a federal loophole in gun laws Meanwhile the Defense Department is reviewing its screening procedures for foreign nationals who come to the u.s. For military training N.P.R.'s Bob Yellin has more federal investigators are trying to determine what motivated the military student to carry out the rampage inside of a Pensacola Naval Base classroom on Friday defense secretary Mark esper said on Fox News Sunday that the incident is also prompting a review of how foreign nationals are vetted before coming to the u.s. For military training my understanding is currently of course a review by department state their review by Department Homeland Security and they are reviewed by us and I want to make sure that those those procedures are full and sufficient The Pentagon has long allowed military officers from other countries to train in the u.s. Defense officials have defended the exchanges as investigators examine how the program screens for officers the Navy has identified the 3 victims who were killed trying to stop the gunman Bobby on n.p.r. News Washington the House Judiciary Committee holds an impeachment Pietschmann hearing tomorrow into President terms dealings with Ukraine to review evidence compiled by the House Intelligence Committee lawyers for both Republicans and Democrats will present their cases afterward the committee will decide whether it should move forward with articles of impeachment in Hong Kong tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets today in the 1st authorized pro-democracy rally in more than 2 months and there is only thing has. Marchers dressed in black the chosen color of protest and others and more colorful winter clothing streamed into Hong Kong's commercial district by the thousands they shouted slogans like Hong Kong revenge and called on the city's Leader Kerry lamb to step down anti-government protests are now in their 6 month despite the withdrawal of an extradition bill that initially sparked the protests demonstrations have expanded into greater calls for direct democracy rule of law and greater autonomy from Beijing the March coincides with the United Nations Human Rights Day and as the largest The city has seen in months Emily Fang n.p.r. News Beijing business economists are forecasting economic growth to slow slightly this year and next but say they think the economy will not fall into recession the latest survey of $53.00 forecasters with the National Association for Business Economics shows expected growth of 2.9 percent to slow to 2.8 percent this year and then down to 1.8 percent in 2020 this is n.p.r. . In India at least $43.00 people are dead after a fire swept through a handbag factory in a can just in New Delhi neighborhood authorities say an electrical short appears to be the cause and are investigating whether the factory was operating legally the owner has been detained the Kennedy Center hands out its annual awards honoring excellence in the arts tonight Linda Ronstadt Sally Field and the producers of Sesame Street are among the honorees as are Earth Wind and Fire and Michael Tilson Thomas N.P.R.'s Elizabeth Blair reports honoree Michael Tilson Thomas leads orchestras around the world and champions American composers like conducting works by Aaron Copeland. Sesame Street is the 1st t.v. Program to receive the award the Kennedy Center says the show continues to revolutionize how viewers learn about the world and Earth Wind and Fire is being honored for songs that have bridged generations. The weekend for honorees. Includes a dinner at the State Department and a star studded show of tributes at the Kennedy Center Elizabeth Blair n.p.r. News Washington Space X.'s Dragon capsule made a delivery to the International Space Station today delivering mice pest killing worms and a smart and empathetic robot among other things but there was also a holiday cheer NASA says nestled into the 3 tons of supplies were Christmas presents this is space x. This 1900 to the orbiting outpost is the markets are trading higher at this hour the Asia dollar is up about one 3rd of a percent I'm Janine Herbst And you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from the George Lucas Educational Foundation creator of Edutopia an online resource dedicated to improving the learning experience for America's students with information and strategies about what works in k. Through 12 education learn more Edutopia dot org. You. From p.r.i. And the janitor in Ted Stanley studios at the University of Massachusetts Boston this is living on earth I'm Steve her would as government leaders scientists and civil society from around the world meet at the un Scott 25 climate change negotiations in Madrid some localities in the us are stepping forward to fill the gap left by President Trump's refusal to engage One example is Brookline Massachusetts an inner suburb of Boston with about 60000 residents Brookline is awaiting final state approval of a by law which would largely prohibit the installation of any new oil and gas pipelines in new or substantially renovated buildings this legislation will be the 1st of its kind east of the Mississippi and it is expected to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent for the town over the next 30 years here to explain is Lisa Cunningham Co petitioner of the bylaw welcome to living on Earth thank you so much for having me so you're an architect What are you talking about doing in a building that you might be asked to design to to get out of using natural gas so what you can do in terms of your heating and cooling needs is that you can use either air 1st the pumps or grounds for he pumps which many people refer to as geothermal right now these systems are cost effective and have been use frequently in buildings traction the big change is that air source heat pumps you. To be not a political ball for colder climates in terms of being able to heat in very low temperatures now that's changed and air swears he pumps can heat buildings to minus 15 degrees and for climb never gets that cold no ovo you had almost a unanimous vote in favor of this I'm sure there were some concerns that came up through the process how did you address those so you wind up with a virtually unanimous decision by the town that's a great question so we actually listened very hard to what our constituents and also what various stakeholders were sagging the questions that they had and then we actually came up with some exemptions to address people's concerns so one thing that we found out early on was that it's very hard to provide domestic hot water for buildings of over 10000 square feet so we've had an exemption for that we also made exemption 1st for restaurant cooking because we found out that although a lot of things are possible with restaurant cooking there are some pieces of equipment that still aren't there in terms of cost we also established a waiver process so that if there are certain projects the come up it's very easy to apply for and get a waiver so you see if I understand your town by law simply any new building or something that's being substantially renovated really has to come through some hoops if they want to have natural gas pipes correct you are allowed to keep your existing piping but you are not allowed to install or move new piping and what about the cost of this to what extent is this going to raise costs for people who are doing renovation or new construction Well we actually did a lot of research into this and to our surprise we actually found out that these systems are essentially cost neutral there's. A very little variation in terms of installation costs one thing that's also interesting as well is that for low income housing there's a lot being done in Brookline are ready to major building projects that have already started in town are installing air source he palms for their heating system and cooling the residents are thrilled because they will actually be getting air conditioning along with their heating and the low income housing authority in Brookline I actually made this decision prior to us bringing this Wired article to the town know I believe Berkeley California was the 1st city to have strong restrictions on natural gas to new buildings and there's been kind of a ripple effect what other cities and towns are you expecting to inspire with this move we are hoping to build a movement around this the only way we can reduce our carbon emissions is to stop using fossil fuels and so we're very much hoping that other towns and cities will follow us it's just makes no sense to install systems that will last for 30 years when we know we have to be ripping these systems out what role does climate justice play in this by law thanks for asking that question it's a very important question climate justice is a very important part of this bylaw we felt it was very important to make sure that underserved communities were getting the same benefits of this by law that everybody else in Brookline would get and we were completely satisfied by the fact that this is very affordable for low income housing and also as as you now our climate crisis disproportionately affects people who are at risk already and so this. A very critical part of our Wired article Lisa Cunningham was to cope with fission or of the Brookline Massachusetts by a lot of restricting natural gas in new and heavily reconstructed buildings Ms Cunningham thanks so much for taking the time with me today thank you so much it was a pleasure. Both the time in the program and we take a look beyond the headlines with Peter Dykstra Peters an editor with environmental health news that's each end dot org And daily climate dot org on the line now from Atlanta Georgia I think Peter you there I'm here Steve I want to talk a little bit about coal capacity and coal use around the world you know we've heard so much we've talked here so much about how coal is in decline in the u.s. Power plants are closing or converting to renewables converting their natural gas coal is also in decline in Europe in a big way but both of those declines which will help climate change are being offset by something that's going to cause more climate change and that's the China is building so much more coal power capacity that all of the gains in the rest of the world are negated you know that's not good news feed or what else to have I got some more not so good news from Siberia the Northeast Passage shipping route that's opening up with the melting Arctic along the Russian Siberian coast is going to be the site of some more traffic of coal ships India has a goal of drastically increasing its steel production they need anthracite coal to do that and one of the best untapped sources of anthracite coal is Siberian Russia so it sounds like the worse things get the worse things are getting. What else do you have today for us famous 8 Jakarta Rico and the Virgin Islands has stalled Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands of course were devastated by Hurricane Maria and hurricane Irma 2 years ago the Miami Herald recently reported that about one 3rd of the claims by Puerto Rican homeowners to fema to help them rebuild have been denied there's a tremendous amount of bureaucracy attached to this and a lot of people living with blue tarps instead of a real roof over their head from a hurricane that happened 2 years 2 months ago and now what's happened to rebuilding the electric infrastructure there in Puerto Rico well with infrastructure like the damage claims payments in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are way behind what famous done in Texas and Florida but with electric You may recall that early on there was a scandal involving a 2 person firm called White Fish energy from Whitefish Montana they got a $300000000.00 contract to rebuild the Puerto Rican electric infrastructure the sperm happens to be in the hometown of then interior secretary Ryan sinky whitefish says they've already spent 126000000 of that $300000000.00 contract and that they've never paid they're suing the federal government and utilities that subcontracted to Whitefish is suing whitefish So it's a big big legal mast Yeah of course the contract was voided out I guess by the federal government but still somebody has to pay a what do you have from the history of all for us this week going to go back to December 5th 1848 What was the equivalent back then of the state of the Union speech President James k. Polk who is not known for a whole lot but maybe he should be known for saying something that jumpstarted the growth of the state of California and that was he talked about gold being discovered in California a space. Ific Lee at Sutter's Mill not far from Sacramento and here's what he said the explorations already made warrant the belief that the supply is very large and that gold is found in various places in an extensive district of country of course people like gold then and even now what happened $60000.00 people made it to California in the year 849 alone and bear in mind these aren't people who took the Transcontinental Railroad because there wasn't one they didn't take a relatively easy voyage should the Panama Canal because there wasn't a fan of Mark canal most of these folks went all the way around South America around Cape Horn and a journey that sometimes took several months so 60000 people. That was enough to make a state right that's right the beginning of $848.00 California was still Mexican territory it was ceded to the u.s. The Gold Strike happened later in the year the gold rush happened in 49 and by 850 California became the 31st state well that's history for you thanks Peter Peter doctors an editor with environmental health news that c.h.m. Dot org And daily climate dot org We'll talk again real soon Ok Steve thanks a lot talk to you soon and there's more on these stories that the Living on Earth website a large. Coming up the risky business of reporting about crimes on the high seas That's just ahead here a living on Earth support for living on Earth comes from sailors for the sea and Oceana helping boaters race clean sail green and protect the seas they love nor information at sailors for the sea dot org. 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It's living on earth I'm Steve Irwin about 70 percent of our planet is covered by the oceans yet we know more about the surface of the moon than the deep ocean with such little attention from society it's also no surprise that lawlessness is rampant out on the open ocean with crimes ranging from illegal fishing to slavery at sea New York Times investigative reporter Ian Urbina spent a number of years researching and writing his new book The Outlaw ocean journeys across the last untamed front here at times he risked his life in his quest to shed light on the dark corners of our seas in recently joined me at the New England Aquarium there are Boston studios for a live event to share some of the story. And let me just start. By asking you the outlaw ocean to what extent do we understand that there's no law there I mean in this society we live where hey if you have a parking ticket they come for you and they boot your car I mean this is a whole system of accountability and yet out there there's not yester I approach this space both as a frontier and as an outlaw by which I mean an extra legal space it's not the case that there are no laws there are lots of laws but the laws are often written in a murky or contradictory way and then also laws are only as good as they are in force mint and especially on the high seas in international waters there's no you know police force that is out there patrolling So while there are isolated cases of enforcement there you decided to and forgive me at this point book in the ocean with stories about the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society What about their journeys stood out to you and especially to tell us the story of the yes or no for those who don't know the Sea Shepherd is this interesting organization self described as a vigilante ocean conservation group so organization that has a large fleet of ships and they go around the world patrolling and so the book is as you say book ended with 2 Sea Shepherd stories the front story is about Sea Shepherd's campaign to chase the world's most wanted illegal fishing vessel called the thunder and then the last chapter of the book is a look at a very different