Playing with Fire - with Denise Snyder

Outdoor grilling may be easy and fun, but grilling meat can be hazardous to your health.

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about how rising temperatures around the world are impacting our health, and how the Trump administration is terminating the research on PFAS in bio-solid fertilizer used in agriculture. Then Denise Snyder, Associate Dean for Clinical Research at Duke School of Medicine, talks about grilling food and how cooking meat on an open flame can be hazardous to your health.

Green Street - Playing with Fire with Denise Snyder

13:30

Links from the Interview

Information from Boston University about safe grilling: https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/how-to-prepare-grilled-meats-safely/

Fact sheet from the National Cancer Institute: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/cooked-meats-fact-sheet

Links from the News

Extreme heat is a killer: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/climate/europe-heat-wave-death-toll-global-warming

Trump administration stops research on PFAS-laden fertilizer on farmland: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/11/trump-pfas-research-funding-farms

The Fight Over Toxic Chemicals - with Dr. Philip Landrigan

The nation's leading expert on environmental toxins talks about his work and recent study on glyphosate.

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug dedicate the entire program to their interview with the nation's leading expert on environmental toxins, Dr. Philip Landrigan. Over a career spanning decades, Dr. Landrigan has been out front on efforts to inform the public about the links between common environmental exposure and human health, including groundbreaking work on lead, asbestos, and pesticides. A pediatrician by training, Dr. Landrigan is currently the Director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, and Director of the Global Observatory on Planetary Health at the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society at Boston College.

The Fight Over Toxic Chemicals - with Dr. Philip Landrigan

29:00

Links from the interview

Glyphosate study: "Carcinogenic effects of long-term exposure from prenatal life to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides in Sprague-Dawley rats" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40490737/

Dr. Landrigan's page at Boston College: https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/morrissey/departments/biology/people/faculty-directory/Phil-Landrigan.html

The Ramazzini Institute web page: https://www.collegiumramazzini.org/

Dr. Philip Landrigan

The Battle Over Plastic - with Judith Enck

Legislators are hesitant to make action to regulate plastic, but the problem gets worse every day.

In the news this week, Patti and Doug talk about the surprising toxicity of homes of Los Angeles due to the recent fires, and the decades of delay for people in Chicago waiting to get rid of lead pipes. Then former EPA Regional Administrator and Beyond Plastics founder Judith Enck talks about the recent battle in New York State over legislation to reduce the amount of plastic in product packaging.  

Green Street - The Battle Over Plastic, with Judith Enck

29:01

Links from the Interview

The website of Beyond Plastics: https://www.beyondplastics.org/

Links from the News

California Homes That Escaped Fire Didn't Escape Toxins: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/24/realestate/los-angeles-fires-toxic-homes.html

It's OK for People in Chicago to Wait 50 Years for Lead Pipe Replacement: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26062025/chicago-lead-pipe-replacement-plan/