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During the second hour Marc and co-host Anthony McCarthy are joined by Robert Percival, director of the environmental law program at the University of Maryland School of Law, Senator Lisa Gladden, democratic state senator from Maryland’s 41st district, Senator James(Jim) Brochin, democratic state senator from Maryland’s 42nd district, and Delegate Richard Sossi, Republican Delegate representing the 36th district on the Eastern Shore, deputy minority whip and a member of Environmental matters committee, to talk about a suit by the University of Maryland’s environmental law clinic that accuses poultry giant Perdue Farms of water pollution. The lawsuit has led to a debate in Annapolis over cutting funding to the law clinic, raising the issues of academic freedom and corporate influence on politicians.