Big Oil's Dirty Little Secret - with Justin Nobel

Drilling for natural gas brings highly radioactive waste up from deep underground. Now its our problem.

This week on Green Street, Patti & Doug discuss the failure of the FDA to regulate chemicals in food, and how new language in the farm bill will prohibit states from regulating pesticides. Then author and investigative reporter Justin Nobel talks about the extremely high levels of radiation from fracking and how the industry is trying to keep it quiet.

Green Street - Big Oil's Dirty Little Secret

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Links from the interview:

• Justin Noble: Big Oil's Dangerous Radioactive Secret:https://www.desmog.com/2024/04/24/petroleum-238-fracking-big-oil-dangerous-secret-justin-noble-ohio-west-virginia-toxic-waste/

• Family takes two corporations to court over fracking concerns:https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/washington-county-family-fracking-court-case/

Links from the news:

• Open letter to the FDA:https://www.ehn.org/fda-food-safety-chemicals-2668282848.html#:~:text=A%20recent%20hearing%20in%20front,tobacco%20scandals%20in%20recent%20years.

• Farm bill could reduce pesticide regulation:https://www.ehn.org/farm-bill-could-reduce-state-pesticide-regulations-and-legal-protections-2668407318.html#:~:text=The%20bill%20includes%20provisions%20that,and%20environmental%20groups%20oppose%20them.

  
  

Beware What You Wear with Alden Wicker

The synthetic chemicals in the clothing you wear can impact your health...

This week on GSN, Patti and Doug discuss PFAS in butter wrappers, health costs of fossil fuels, and what will finally get politicians to address climate change. Then investigative journalist and author Alden Wicker talks about her new book "To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back."

Green Street - Alden Wicker

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Links from the interview:

Alden Wicker: https://www.aldenwicker.com/

Ecocult:https://ecocult.com/about/

Alden's interview regarding Delta uniforms:https://soundcloud.com/greenstreetpodcast/grassroots-alden-wicker

Harvard study on airline uniforms:https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/11/harvard-study-plays-key-role-in-suit-against-airline-uniform-maker/

Toxic flame retardants:https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/new-research-fin

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Textile factory linked to fish kill:https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/07/15/textile-factory-on-ogeechee-river-linked-2011-fish-kill-close

Links from the News:

PFAS in butter wrappers: https://www.ehn.org/pfas-in-food-packaging-2662266606.html

Health costs of using fossil fuel: https://www.axios.com/2023/05/10/oil-gas-health-impacts-study

Speaking for the World with Vito Buonsante

On this edition of Green Street, Patti and Doug speak with Vito Buonsante of IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network) about his work representing people who are often hit hardest by pollution but lack the resources to fight back against big corporations and Western countries who are causing the problem.