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Toxic Turf - with Barbara Laker and David Gambacorta

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

Two investigative reporters from the Philadelphia Inquirer talk about what they found when they looked at the chemicals in artificial turf.

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about firefighting gear that was supposed to be PFAS-free (but turned out not to be), hazardous mercury vapor emanating from school gymnasium floors, and how men, not women, are responsible for at least half of all fertility problems. Then, in an interview recorded a few years ago, reporters Barbara Laker and David Gambacorta from the Philadelphia Inquirer talk about what they discovered when they started looking at the chemicals in artificial turf fields. 

Green Street - Toxic Turf with Barbara Laker and David Gambacorta

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What Are We Doin"? (Music and lyrics by Doug Wood)

What Are We Doin'?

 
 
 

Hormone Trouble - with Dr. Tom Zoeller

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

Updated: Aug 29, 2025

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 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



 
 
 

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

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

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

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


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

 
 
 
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