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Pipelines Filled with Trouble - with Justin Nobel

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

Highly toxic and radioactive fracking waste is being transported through makeshift pipelines with no government oversight. What could go wrong?

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about petrochemical plants dumping toxins in the nearby water, how Cambodian brick factories burning plastic clothes for fuel are making workers sick, and how wildfires in California are creating toxic air and debris from burning plastic structures, furnishings and personal items. Then investigative reporter Justin Nobel talks about the secret network of unregulated pipelines in fracking country carrying highly toxic and radioactive waste to unknown destinations. 


Green Street - Justin Nobel podcast

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Petrochemical plants pour millions of pounds of pollutants into water: https://www.ehn.org/petrochemical-plants-send-pollutants-into-waterways-2670496106.html

Cambodian brick kilns powered by synthetic clothing scraps: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68102771






Making Polluters Pay for Climate Change - with Anne Rabe

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

A new law in New York will make greenhouse gas producers pay $75 billion to help offset the costs of dealing with climate change.


This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about popular foods that are contaminated with plastic particles, the secret network of pipelines carrying toxic radioactive waste from fracking operations, and the proposal to bury millions of tons of carbon under the Gulf of Mexico. Then Anne Rabe, Environmental Policy Director at NYPIRG, talks about New York’s groundbreaking Climate Change Superfund Act, which requires greenhouse gas polluters to pay $75 billion to help defray the costs of dealing with powerful storms and other impacts of climate change.



Making Polluters Pay for Climate Change -with Anne Rabe

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NYPIRG's page on climate change and the New York State law: https://www.nypirg.org/climatechange/


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Spinning Science for Profit - with Dr. Laura Vandenberg

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

The tobacco playbook is alive and well, as big companies with profits at stake spin science to their benefit.

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the end of landline phone service, why you should never use a plastic cutting board, and how endocrine disrupting chemicals in consumer products can make your body do things it shouldn’t. Then Dr. Laura Vandenberg talks about her research on how big companies intentionally distort science and mislead the public to protect their profits.


Green Street Laura Vandenberg podcast


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Dr. Vandenberg's web page at the University of Massachusetts: https://www.umass.edu/public-health-sciences/about/directory/laura-vandenberg


Dr. Vandenberg's study on spinning science: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33771171/


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