February 20, 2024: Midday News

The U.S.Supreme Court says it won’t take up a pair of challenges to state laws that cap rent hikes on roughly a million New York City rent-stabilized apartments. Meanwhile, the MTA is planning to replace all the fluorescent lights in the subway with LED ones.Plus, construction related deaths are trending up in New York City for the third year in a row, according to a report from the non-profit New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health. WNYC’s Michael Hill talks with Charlene Obernauer, executive director of NYCOSH to discuss their yearly report.Finally, an artificial turf war is spreading through the Garden State. WNYC's Rosemary Misdary reports from Montclair where a dispute over the turf it used for athletic fields has turned bitter.