Plastic in the Placenta with Dr. Marcus Garcia

Scientists are discovering tiny pieces of plastic in virtually every organ of the human body. Now babies are being born with plastic inside. Do you think maybe it's time to reduce our production of plastic?

Green Street - Plastic Placenta

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Links from the interview:

• Study: microplastics found in human placenta:https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article/199/1/81/7609801?login=false

Links from the news:

• Gas and propane stoves leading to adverse health effects:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adm8680

• Ron DeSantis scrubs Florida climate change bill:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/desantis-climate-change-energy-bill

  
  

Toxic Turf with Barbara Laker and David Gambacorta

Artificial turf sports fields are an environmental nightmare – a threat to our kids' health and their future.

This week on Green Street Patti and Doug talk about why processed foods are so addictive, and how telecoms are trying to get rid of copper land lines. Then investigative reporters Barbara Laker and David Gambacorta talk about their series in the Philadelphia Inquirer about artificial turf and members of the Phillies baseball team who all developed brain cancer after years of playing on the field.

Green Street - Toxic Turf

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Links from the interview:

• PFAS in Veterans Stadium turf:https://www.fox29.com/news/investigative-report-dangerous-chemicals-pfas-veterans-stadium-turf

• Barbara Laker:https://www.inquirer.com/author/laker_barbara/

• David Gambacorta:https://www.inquirer.com/author/gambacorta_david/

• Firefighters at risk of contact with forever chemicals:https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/01/wear-and-tear-may-cause-firefighter-gear-release-more-forever-chemicals

• PAH in car tires:https://www.greencarcongress.com/2012/03/pah-20q2.html

• Athletes are exposed to PFAS on artificial turf fields:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/15/athletes-higher-pfas-levels-artificial-turf

Links from the news:

• Are ultra-processed foods as addictive as cigarettes?:https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/news-events/all-news/faculty-news/are-ultra-processed-foods-as-addictive-as-cigarettes-.html#:~:text=Highly%20processed%20foods%20are%20addictive,addiction%20to%20ultra%2Dprocessed%20foods.

• AT&T application to stop serving landline phones denied:https://apnews.com/us-news/california-at-t-inc-general-news-0696df6b89506bc0ed367866dbe00cca#:~:text=California's%20Public%20Utilities%20Commission%20rejected,California%20was%20“fatally%20flawed.”

Speaking for the World with Vito Buonsante

On this edition of Green Street, Patti and Doug speak with Vito Buonsante of IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network) about his work representing people who are often hit hardest by pollution but lack the resources to fight back against big corporations and Western countries who are causing the problem.