The powerful sugar industry has spent years downplaying the health impacts of sugar and promoting the use of fluoride in public water supplies. In the news this week, Patti and Doug talk about a new warning on plastic pollution and children's health, how play sand in Australia has been found to be laced with asbestos, and the EPA's head-scratching approval of another PFAS pesticide ingredient. Then scientific researcher Chris Neurath talks about his work uncovering documents

The secret to raising healthy kids in a technological world. This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about chemical lobbyists...

The nation's leading expert on environmental toxins talks about his work and recent study on glyphosate. This week on Green Street, Patti...

Author, biologist, environmentalist, and political activist Rick Smith talks about the two biggest environmental threats of our...

A wide range of consumer products contain chemicals that can play havoc with human development. This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug...

The radiation from wireless devices can be harmful, especially for kids. This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the health...

Science supports keeping your wireless devices away from your developing baby. This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about...

A soccer coach talks about young soccer goalies who developed lymphoma after playing for years on artificial turf. This week on Green...

Food for kids is a $130 billion dollar business. No wonder our kids are being targeted by food marketers! This week on Green Street,...

Delivering fluoride through public water supplies was never a good idea. Now we find out, it lowers IQ in children. This week on Green...

Years ago, "Lead Safe Mama" Tamara Rubin's family was poisoned by lead. Now she's on a campaign to make sure every parent knows about the...

Endocrine disrupting chemicals are changing the way your body works, whether you know it or not. This week on Green Street, Patti and...

Are you aware of the amount of plastic that people unknowingly ingest each day? This week on Grassroots, Patti & Doug discuss plastic...

his week on Green Street, Patti & Doug talk about the hazards of pesticides and wildfire smoke. Then Dr. Megan Romano of Dartmouth...

Scientists are discovering tiny pieces of plastic in virtually every organ of the human body. Now babies are being born with plastic...

On this edition of Green Street, Patti and Doug speak with Dr. Joshua Rosenthal about how our eyes function, and how blue light can...

The pesticide glyphosate was supposed to be the perfect product: toxic to weeds and harmless to humans. But like anything that sounds too...

On this Earth Day edition of Green Street, Patti and Doug talk with Dr. Kenneth Spaeth, Chief of Occupational and Environmental Medicine...

Bertha Lewis of the Black Institute and Jay Feldman of Beyond Pesticides talk about the use of toxic pesticides in NYC parks.

On this edition of Green Street, Patti and Doug speak with nationally-recognized soccer coach Amy Griffin who is compiling a list of...

Dr. Joshua Rosenthal, an ENT physician and sleep specialist, talks about how the blue light from computer screens, smart phones and tablets

On this edition of Green Street, Doug and Patti welcome psychologist and best-selling author Nicholas Kardaras.

Climate Mama Harriet Shugarman talks with Patti and Doug about her now book, How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change.

Moms have an uncanny and unique power to get things done, and there is probably no better example than Zen Honeycutt.

Adolescent and child psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Dunckley talks about the growing problem of digital addiction.

Patti and Doug talk with research scientists and environmental activist Dr. Hildur Palsdottir about environmental awareness.

On this edition of Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about New York City’s proposed legislation to ban chemical pesticides with experts.

Mary Holland, Research Scholar and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Children's Health Defense. Mary talks about the new NY State...

Patti is the recipient of the EPA’s prestigious Children’s Environmental Health Excellence Award, and the author of Helping To Heal, a...

On this edition of Green Street, Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, talks about...

In April, an award-winning documentary film about the vaccine controversy—”Vaxxed”—was abruptly pulled from the Tribeca Film Festival. On...

In this edition of Green Street, we talk with an MIT-trained scientist who became fascinated with the environmental links to autism. Dr....

For many years, the research on autism has been focused on the role of genes – and looking for that single “autism gene” that may be...

The rates of autism in the United States have skyrocketed over the past decade. While researchers are still debating the role that...

90210 may seem like an unlikely zip code for a story about an environmental disaster, but sadly, this is no Hollywood script. It’s...

Many people suffer from “Multiple Chemical Sensitivity,” a term that includes a variety of symptoms that may be experienced during or...

Can our kids survive the American lifestyle? The air they breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat all contribute to a child’s...

Could early-life exposure to chemicals pre-determine our size? Obesity has become a worldwide epidemic, and scientists are puzzled over...

What are the potential effects of long-term exposure to wireless transmitters? Are they as safe as their manufacturers claim, or is...

As school systems across the country rush to install wireless transmitters in classrooms,  some environmental health experts are warning...

Autism is often called a “spectrum disorder” because it affects individuals differently and to varying degrees. The autism-spectrum...

How did this whole concept of fluoridation of public water supplies get started, and what should you know about it? On this edition of...