Grassroots with Patti & Doug Wood

After a discussion of the week's environmental headlines, Patti and Doug speak with Dr. Ron Melnick, designer of the world's most elaborate and expensive study designed to determine if non-ionizing radiation from cell phones and other wireless devices could cause cancer. Spoiler Alert: it can, and it does.

On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug talk with attorney turned breast cancer researcher Polly Marshall about the chemicals commonly used in personal care products and how her group of BC survivors helped conduct a study showing the harm they cause.

On this edition of GSN, Doug and Patti discuss PFAS chemicals, increases in cancer linked to cell phones in pockets, and hospitals contributing to global warming. Then we speak with Dr. Paul Héroux about why cell phones are hazardous and his new study showing how phones could be made much safer.

After the week's environmental health headlines, Dr. Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, talks about the effects of non-ionizing radiofrequency (RF) radiation and why she is so certain that the symptoms reported by diplomats and government workers are related to exposure.

On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug talk with attorney Odette Wilkens founder of the non-profit Wired Broadband Inc., about the giant 5G towers being constructed all across New York City, and the growing backlash from local citizens who don't want them.

On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug speak with biologist and troubleshooter Dr. Tim Wood, about how things can get out of hand when the environment of tiny animals is changed. It's the world of unintended consequences on Green Street News!

On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug speak with noted epidemiologist Devra Davis about her lifetime of work and achievement protecting the public from environmental toxins. Dr. Davis is the recipient of the Leadership Award from Americans for Responsible Technology.

Stuff happens, Things go wrong. Even with careful planning and backup systems, inherently dangerous things remain dangerous. On this edition of Green Street News we look at how a valve that didn't close properly almost cost us the state of Pennsylvania.

The toxic chemical rail spill in East Palestine, Ohio, was the inevitable result of relaxed regulations for rail transportation and a lack of strict regulations for chemical manufacturing and transport. This week on Green Street News, reporter Schuyler Mitchell tells about her investigation into the issue and how powerful lobbies and deregulation have put all of our lives at risk.

Everybody is for energy independence, and everybody is for public health. On Green Street News this week we'll talk with Alison Steele of the Environmental Health Project about what happens when the two issues collide, as they do with fracking. Patti and Doug cover the week’s environmental news including the derailment of the freight train carrying vinyl chloride and Monsanto’s blatant effort to s...

On this edition of Green Street News we welcome our friend and colleague Michele Hertz to talk about the new generation of digital wireless utility meters, how they caused her to become severely ill, and what can be done. Her riveting story is similar to so many we’ve heard over the years. Other news items on today’s show: Oil and gas companies are asking the Supreme Court to get rid of the ban on...

On this week's GSN, our feature story involves endocrine disrupting chemicals in food, cosmetics and other consumer products, and how they are causing a decline in birth rates and sperm production, and an increase in testicular cancer and gender dysphoria. News items include Tom's River pollution, plastic in the medical system and microplastics impacting climate change.

On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug discuss the old Pilgrim nuclear power plant outside Boston, and how the company decommissioning the plant is planning to dump a million gallons of nuclear waste into Cape Cod Bay. Other news stories include the FDA's proposed limit on lead in baby food, how pesticides are exacerbating climate change and why plastic is impossible to recycle.

On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug discuss how toxic beauty products are marketed to people of color, oil and gas companies are moving into geothermal systems, and storm damage from climate change is costing us $165 billion a year. Then Dr. Mary Beth Kirkham of Kansas State University talks about micro plastics on farms, and how they’re jeopardizing our food supply.

On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug discuss the warming of the world’s oceans due to climate change, how gas stoves are causing asthma in children, and how the world’s investors are demanding that chemical companies stop producing PFAS. Then an in-depth conversation with food expert Helena Bottemiller Evich about the failure of the FDA to manage our food system. He acclaimed newsletter can be f...

On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug discuss the impact of plastic production and disposal on climate change, how a diet high in processed foods can hasten dementia, and a new article from ProPublica about cell phones and what the government isn’t telling you. Then our feature story with Dr. Aarti Ivanic concerns the marketing of junk food and its impact on kids health.

On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug review the Top Ten Environmental Issues of 2022 and their impact on our health, with clips from Green Street News shows throughout the year.

On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug discuss the hazards of eating chocolate, why plastic roads are a bad idea, the big announcement about nuclear fusion may not be the panacea we think, and finally a story from a reporter in Minnesota and 3M's contamination of water with PFAS chemicals and the impact on local citizens.

On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug discuss a new international treaty to stop plastic pollution, the world's insurance bill for natural disasters reaches $115 billion, Democrats are pressuring EPA to go easy on the regulation of toxic chemicals, and we take a close look at the effect of technology on our kids with Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, author of the best -selling book Glow Kids.

On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug talk about PFAS from fracking waste showing up in landfills, how Coca Cola is influencing public health events, Congressional Democrats have a plan to stop plastic pollution, and a story about PFAS with former EPA whistleblower Dr. Kyla Bennett, now science policy director at PEER, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

On this edition of Green Street News, Patti and Doug discuss big companies failing to meet their plastic reduction targets, New York State puts a moratorium on crypto, Pennsylvania OKs a hazardous waste dump near residential areas, and how a soccer coach in Washington state discovered a cancer cluster among soccer goalies who play on synthetic turf.

On this week's edition of Green Street News, Patti and Doug discuss the failure of COP 27, how chemicals in vehicle tires are killing Pacific salmon, and how blue light from phones and computer screens is disrupting our circadian rhythm with serious health consequences.

On this edition of Green Street News, Patti and Doug talk about detergent pods, declining sperm counts and the sordid story of the corrupt Monsanto corporation, which created a highly toxic, cancer-causing pesticide and then developed GMO crops that were resistant to it, as told by best-selling investigative reporter and author Carey Gillam.

On this edition of Green Street News, Patti and Doug talk about the news of the day. Then Dr. Jay Lemery of the University of Colorado talks about his groundbreaking program preparing the medical community to deal with the health challenges brought on by climate change.

On this edition of Green Street News, freelance reporter Justin Noble describes the highly dangerous materials that come out of an oil or gas well when it is fracked, and how broad public understanding of this issue might have changed the course of climate change.