Grassroots with Patti & Doug Wood

This week on GSN, Patti and Doug talk about the COP 28 debacle, the plastic recycling hoax and state bans on PFAS chemicals. Then Jackie Bowen, executive director of Clean Label Project, talks about the organization's mission to clean up our food supply using data, science, and transparency, starting with baby food. Learn more at www. CleanLabelAction.org.

This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about how screen time for babies can negatively impact their development, banning synthetic turf in California, and lead in baby food pouches. Then Patti talks about the BabySafe Project, designed to inform pregnant women about the potential harms from wireless radiation. On the web at www. BabySafeProject.org.

This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about the failure of plastic recycling and PFAS in baby diapers. Then attorney Julian Gresser talks about his work in public interest law and the development of the International Declaration on the Human Rights of Children in the Digital Age.

This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about Poland Spring's lobbyist gutting water restrictions in Maine, California's Governor says NO to filters on washing machines to reduce plastic pollution, and Kristina Marusic's Op-Ed about childhood cancer. Then integrative medicine physician Dr. Sharon Goldberg talks about electro-magnetic sensitivity (EMS) and how mold can exacerbate symptoms.

This week on GSN, Patti and Doug talk about Wi-Fi on school buses, making big oil companies pay for climate change, and how the rain is now contaminated with PFAS chemicals. Then Ellen Marks, founder of the California Brain Tumor Association, tells her personal story about cell phones and her husband's brain cancer.

This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about our diminishing water aquifers and microplastic particles in the clouds and the rain. Then NRDC's Dan Raichel talks about neonic pesticides, their devastating impact on our environment and our health, and the proposed legislation in New York to limit their indiscriminate use.

This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about burning tires to power cryptocurrency data mining, tax breaks for plastic manufacturing, and PFAS in fast food. Then scientist Cheri Peele from Toxic Free Future talks about the array of chemicals in everyday products and how some retailers are helping to reduce our body burden.

This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about PFAS chemicals in consumer products and firefighting gear, excess radiation from the iPhone 12, and the earth exceeding most of its planetary boundaries. Then we hear excerpts from five outstanding speakers at the March to End Fossil Fuels.

This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about chemical coatings on fruits and veggies and the FCC's failure to protect the environment from cell towers. Then Dr. Sandra Steingraber talks about her latest essay about how the burning of fossil fuels is quietly but rapidly destroying our oceans, and the March to End Fossil Fuels on September 17th!

This week on GSN, Patti and Doug talk about how screen time can negatively impact infants, flame retardants in breast milk, and how fuel made from plastic is carcinogenic. Then Dr. Gordon Edwards talk about the plan to dump 1 million gallons of radioactive wastewater into NY's Hudson River, and what that means to millions of people who depend on the river for drinking water, as well as the tourist...

This week on GSN, Patti and Doug talk about the release of radioactive wastewater from nuclear plants, toxic fertilizer on farmland, and why urban gardens are a problem. Then author Karl Grossman talks about his years of work uncovering the military's plans for using space for war.

On this edition of GSN, P&D talk about lead in baby food, pesticides driving climate change, vehicle tires killing salmon, and why Lysol can be hazardous to your health. Then Dr. Josh Rosenthal explains how sunlight sets your body's internal clock, and how artificial blue light from device screens can throw off your body's clock with wide-ranging negative results.

This week on GSN, Patti and Doug discuss PFAS in fracking, how Coke Influences science, and the plastic waste problem. Then Kyla Bennet of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) talks about her own career as a whistleblower at EPA and how PEER helps other whistleblowers like her.

This week on GSN, after the news headlines, Patti and Doug speak with Mike Belliveau of Defend our Health about the organization's discovery of toxic chemicals in every plastic beverage bottle they tested. Before you take another sip of water, soda or juice from a plastic bottle, listen to this week's show!

This week on GSN, co-host and author Patti Wood talks about the difficulties of raising a healthy baby in a world filled with chemical and environmental exposures, including exposures that happen before and during pregnancy. A must-listen show for every new parent.

This week on GSN Patti and Doug discuss climate change, toxic chemicals in clothes, and the polluting new plastic plant in Pennsylvania. Then Dr. Victoria Dunckley talks about teenagers addicted to their tech screens and how removing technology can change the trajectory of their lives.

Interview at 12:14 This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about Florida's radioactive roads, the chemical sweetener in Diet Coke that causes cancer, and two young people suing the State of Montana over climate change. Then author and climate change expert Mark Dunlea talks about how the world is trying to address climate change but capitalism is holding us back.

This week on GSN, Patti and Doug talk about lawsuits over PFAS, the emotional impact of climate change on kids, and a possible new worldwide treaty on plastic. Then author and journalist Erica Cirino talks about her adventure to document the Great Northern Pacific Plastic Gyre and the impact plastic is having on our natural world.

INTERVIEW STARTS AT 14:04 On this week's show Patti and Doug talk about lax regulation on pesticides, the 5G bust, how smoke from forest fires becomes toxic, and wireless radiation and race horses. Then author Kristina Marusic talks about her new book. A New War on Cancer about environmental links to the deadly disease.

INTERVIEW STARTS AT 9:25. After the bad news about Sucralose (aka "Splenda") and the smoke from Canadian wildfires, Patti and Doug talk with Dr. Jenny Davies (MD, MPH, JD) about how plastic is made from a combination of fossil fuels and lots of toxic chemicals which can migrate into the contents of the bottle even at room temperature.

INTERVIEW STARTS AT 13:38 This week Patti and Doug talk about recycled plastic food packaging, the Supreme Court decision on the Clean Water Act, and the plight of native honeybees. Then New York Sierra Club's Tracy Frisch tells why spreading sewage sludge on farmland, as recently recommended by NY Governor Hochul, is a really bad idea that will contaminate fields forever.

INTERVIEW STARTS AT 12:55 On this week's show, Patti and Doug discuss the worldwide competition for rare minerals, chemicals that can make us gain weight, and the UN's call for urgent action on harmful chemicals. Then Doug talks about the new Petition just filed by Americans for Responsible Technology against the FDA for the agency's failure to comply with the law. More info at www. Americans4rt.o...

INTERVIEW STARTS AT 12:45 This week Patti and Doug discuss the health impact of heat waves, how cleaning products are increasing anti-bacterial resistance, and why recycling plastic may be making things worse. Then Dr. Arlene Blum of the Green Science Policy Institute explains how and why the class of chemicals called PFAS is polluting the world, probably forever.

INTERVIEW STARTS AT 10:12 This week Patti and Doug discuss how heat impacts health, PFAS in food pesticides, and toxics at home and at work. Then former EPA Region II Administrator Judith Enck talks about the politics of plastics, and why legislation is required to force companies like Coca Cola to do the right thing,

Chemical coatings on your veggies, FCC ignoring the environment and PFAS-laden biosolids on farmland top the week's headlines; then Dr. Elijah Stommel tells about his research linking exposure to blue green algae (cyanobacteria) with ALS and other health problems.