Hormone Trouble - with Dr. Tom Zoeller

Chemicals in consumer products that mimic those in our endocrine system can have lifelong negative impacts.

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about PFAS (forever chemicals) on artificial turf fields, Texas’s new court system for business cases backed by big oil, and the dramatic increase in the number of of plastic particles accumulating in your brain. Then Dr. Tom Zoeller, one of the nation's leading experts on endocrine disruption, talks about how these tiny chemicals impact our body and why the government seems unable (or unwilling) to take hormone-disrupting products off the shelf – products that can have serious, life-long impacts on both children and adults. 

Hormone Trouble with Dr. Tom Zoeller

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Links from the Interview

Read an interview with Dr. Zoeller: https://www.endocrine.org/our-community/breakthroughs-and-improving-care/member-spotlight/thomas-zoeller

Links from the News

Kids playing on artificial turf get forever chemicals on their skin: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/15/athletes-higher-pfas-levels-artificial-turf

Texas establishes new legal system for businesses, backed by oil and gas interests: https://www.levernews.com/justice-brought-to-you-by-big-oil/

Plastic in your brain has increased 50% in the last eight years: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health

Patti's Plastic Videos: https://www.grassrootsinfo.org/plasticpollution

Big Oil and the Law - with CIEL's Steven Feit

The Big Oil PR machine grinds out a lot of disinformation. Steven Feit helps separate the hype from the facts.

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the Trump administration’s plans to stop making scientific climate reports easily available to the public, and the new study showing that children living near oil and gas drilling sites have a significantly higher incidence of leukemia. Then Steven Feit, senior attorney with the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL.org), talks about the myth of carbon capture technology and how CEIL is using international law to push back against big oil’s plans for continued pollution of the earth with plastic. 

Big Oil and the Law - with CIEL's Steven Feit

29:00

Links from the Interview

The website for the Center for International Environmental Law: https://www.ciel.org/

Links from the News

The Trump administration has decided to hide climate reports https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nasa-reports-trump-hidden-doc-1ade1eb89bb4785f7cdd6e1d6ba31a21

Children who live near drilling sites are more likely to develop leukemia: https://www.ehn.org/fracking-leukemia-children

Everything Has to Change - with Dr. Kyla Bennett

We can't continue on our current lifestyle trajectory and expect the human race to survive.

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about how painting roofs white can significantly reduce urban heat, and a new study showing that chemicals from tires are ending up in almost all of our lettuce and other parts of our food supply. Then Dr. Kyla Bennett, Science Policy Director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) talks about the fate of humans in a world challenged by climate change, plastic pollution, and chemical toxins. Her conclusion: everything has to change!

Everything Has to Change - with Dr. Kyla Bennett

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Links from the interview:

• Kyla Bennet and PEER:https://peer.org/author/kyla-bennett/

• Sewage sludge carrying PFAS:https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2024/02/08/pfas-sewage-sludge/

• Wild mammals only make up 4% of mammals on earth:https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

  
  

Links from the news:

• Saving cities from extreme heat:https://www.route-fifty.com/infrastructure/2024/07/surprisingly-simple-way-cities-could-save-people-extreme-heat/398073/:~:text=So%20scientists%20and%20urban%20designers,more%20passive,%20simple%20cooling%20techniques.

• Car tires shedding dangerous chemicals and plastics:https://civileats.com/2024/07/16/tracking-tire-plastics-and-chemicals-from-road-to-plate/#:~:text=Tire%2Dderived%20microplastics%20are%20a,the%20environment%20via%20tire%20microplastics.