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Who are the candidates in the Maine Senate race?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. Longtime Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine will face political newcomer Graham Platner in the November general election. She was unopposed in Tuesday's GOP primary. Platner easily won the Democratic primary, this despite recent questions about his personal life.
He addressed supporters Tuesday night in Blue Hill, Maine, and promised to do better. I've made mistakes in my life.
Mistakes that I regret that I live with, that I continue to learn from. I'm still far from perfect. But every day, I wake up and I try to be a little bit better and a little bit kinder than I was the day before.
The Maine Senate seat is considered critical if Democrats are to gain control of the U.S. Senate. The 41-year-old Plattner enlisted in the Marines after graduation from high school. He did multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan before becoming an oyster farmer in his native Maine after he returned home.
Two lawsuits are trying to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement from turning a Salt Lake City warehouse into a detention center. Macy Lipkin of member station KUER has more.
Salt Lake City and County filed one lawsuit. and an advocacy group plans to launch their own. Both cite the National Environmental Policy Act. The law, known as NEPA, requires federal agencies to conduct environmental reviews for projects. And the plaintiffs say the Department of Homeland Security hasn't done that. Seema Kakade teaches at the University of Maryland's law school.
She says NEPA is sometimes called the Magna Carta of environmental law.
It doesn't land in a place where it says the federal agency you know, can or cannot do a specific project. But in the analysis, a lot comes out in that analysis.
A similar lawsuit in Maryland put a detention center there on hold. Now Homeland Security is conducting an environmental review. For NPR News, I'm Macy Lipkin in Ogden, Utah.
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