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Pipelines Filled with Trouble - with Justin Nobel

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

Highly toxic and radioactive fracking waste is being transported through makeshift pipelines with no government oversight. What could go wrong?

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about petrochemical plants dumping toxins in the nearby water, how Cambodian brick factories burning plastic clothes for fuel are making workers sick, and how wildfires in California are creating toxic air and debris from burning plastic structures, furnishings and personal items. Then investigative reporter Justin Nobel talks about the secret network of unregulated pipelines in fracking country carrying highly toxic and radioactive waste to unknown destinations. 


Green Street - Justin Nobel podcast

Links from the Interview


Links from the News

Petrochemical plants pour millions of pounds of pollutants into water: https://www.ehn.org/petrochemical-plants-send-pollutants-into-waterways-2670496106.html

Cambodian brick kilns powered by synthetic clothing scraps: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68102771






Making Polluters Pay for Climate Change - with Anne Rabe

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

A new law in New York will make greenhouse gas producers pay $75 billion to help offset the costs of dealing with climate change.


This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about popular foods that are contaminated with plastic particles, the secret network of pipelines carrying toxic radioactive waste from fracking operations, and the proposal to bury millions of tons of carbon under the Gulf of Mexico. Then Anne Rabe, Environmental Policy Director at NYPIRG, talks about New York’s groundbreaking Climate Change Superfund Act, which requires greenhouse gas polluters to pay $75 billion to help defray the costs of dealing with powerful storms and other impacts of climate change.



Making Polluters Pay for Climate Change -with Anne Rabe

Links from the Interview

NYPIRG's page on climate change and the New York State law: https://www.nypirg.org/climatechange/


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Nuclear Power is Never the Answer - with Heidi Hutner

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

Firing up old nuclear plants and putting public health at risk to satisfy the demands of AI is, well, insane.


This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the State of California suing Exxon for lying about plastic recycling, and how food contact materials contain thousands of toxic chemicals. Then Dr. Heidi Hutner talks about her film “Radioactive: the Women of Three Mile Island” and the recent news that Bill Gates has worked out a deal to re-start the shuttered nuclear facility to provide energy for Microsoft’s AI platforms. 


Green Street - Heid Hutner podcast



Links from the Interview:

• Microsoft makes a deal to re-open Three Mile Island nuclear power plant:https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/20/constellation-nuclear-plant-deal-microsoft-00180218 • Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island: https://radioactivethefilm.com/

Links from the News:

• State of California Sues Exxon for Lying about Plastic Recycling: https://www.propublica.org/article/exxonmobil-plastics-recycling-pyrolysis-lawsuit-california#


• Chemicals in Food Contact Materials: https://www.ehn.org/food-packaging-chemicals-2669244486.html


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