The heavily industrialized process of hydraulic fracking for natural gas has turned parts of rural Pennsylvania into a daily nightmare for local residents. This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about artificial fragrances in air fresheners and laundry products that can contain a host of toxic chemicals and dramatically impact your health, and how data centers are not only using prodigious amounts of water but releasing polluted wastewater back into nearby water sourc

Products with chemicals known to cause cancer, neurological damage, and other serious health problems line the shelves of stores across the country, and the incidence of childhood illness is rising rapidly. In the news this week, Patti and Doug talk about the public’s failure to link weather events to climate change, and the release of information about the toxins at ground zero on 9/11. Then pediatrician and population medicine physician Dr. Bruce Lanphear talks about his ca

House fires are becoming more toxic and deadly than ever before, thanks to the increasing use of plastic in home construction and furnishings. In the news this week, Patti and Doug talk about a new court ruling ordering the FCC to explain why it has still not updated its 30-year-old wireless radiation exposure guidelines, and how the Trump administration is quietly working to hide the astronomical costs of climate-related weather events. Then firefighting and hazmat expert Si