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People, Plastic, & Climate Change with Rick Smith

People, Plastic, & Climate Change with Rick Smith

Update: 2025-05-23
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This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the FDAs continuing failure to regulate toxic chemicals, how a group of mothers are suing manufacturers of plastic food containers, and how the Trump administration is rolling back drinking water standards for certain PFAS chemicals. Then Rick Smith, President of the Canadian Climate Institute and author of Slow Death by Rubber Duck, talks about the dual crises of climate change and plastic pollution as a human health hazard.
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People, Plastic, & Climate Change with Rick Smith

People, Plastic, & Climate Change with Rick Smith

A program of Grassroots Environmental Education