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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

Links from the Interview


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



 
 
 

Every Bite You Take - with Dr. Zahra Kassam

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

Plant-based diets are not only better for you but could significantly change our trajectory on climate change.


This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the health hazards of wildfire smoke and how to stay safe, the effort by the United States to undermine a global plastics treaty ahead of the UN conference in Geneva, and the new report showing that Americans are getting a majority of their calories from ultra-processed foods. Then Dr. Zahra Kassam, radiation oncologist and founder of Plant Based Canada, talks about her work educating the public and her patients about the many health and environmental benefits of a plant based diet. 

Every Bite You Take - with Dr. Zahra Kassam

Links from the Interview

The website of Plant Based Canada: https://www.plantbasedcanada.org/


Links from the News



Most Americans are getting their calories from ultra-processed food: https://www.ehn.org/most-u-s-calories-now-come-from-factory-made-foods-cdc-report-finds

Dr. Zahra Kassam
Dr. Zahra Kassam

 
 
 

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

Links from the Interview

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


Links from the News


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

 
 
 
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