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Join Founder and President of Environmental Working Group Ken Cook as he helps folks connect with their inner environmentalist. Through conversations with diverse innovators and disruptors, Ken delves into the challenges we face and the solutions available to address them.
Everyone on Earth has an intrinsic desire to breathe clean air, drink clean water and eat clean food. So in reality, everyone already is an environmentalist, but not all of us are aware of it…yet.
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Episodes
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- How the MAGA new right came to be · 54 min · Episode 72Who are the intellectuals behind MAGA, and what do they want? In today's episode, Ken sits down with author Laura K. Field, whose book “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New…
- Making energy affordable: California could boost balcony solar · 38 min · Episode 71A bill to ease Californians’ access to balcony solar, also called plug-in PV, just cleared the state Legislature and is now sitting on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk. If he signs the…
- Outbreak of failure: Cyclospora shows food safety unraveling under RFK Jr. · 41 min · Episode 70Tens of thousands of people got sick this summer from a foodborne illness outbreak that was preventable. In today’s episode, Ken speaks with Sarah Sorscher, director of…
- Vernice Miller-Travis and the roots of the environmental justice movement · 58 min · Episode 69"Ask where the landfill is, and you'll find where the Black people live." That's what Vernice Miller-Travis' grandmother told her. Vernice Miller-Travis helped write the report…
- Dr. Georges Benjamin on our public health crisis · 37 min · Episode 68Dr. Georges Benjamin is the CEO of the American Public Health Association, with 25 years at the helm of one of the most respected public health institutions in the U.S. And he’s…
- How AI could transform chemical testing · 35 min · Episode 67Everyday we rely on governmental regulatory systems and animal testing to tell us if the chemicals we’re exposed to will or won’t hurt us. But what if AI could help us get more…
- Environmental chemicals and menopause · 38 min · Episode 66Menopause affects every woman who lives to midlife, and yet it is understudied and undertreated – a research gap that many attribute to medical bias. In today’s episode, Ken is…
- Unregulated chemical mixtures are always in our bodies · 30 min · Episode 65From the day we’re born, our bodies contain a constant mix of chemicals. But our regulatory system only targets these substances one at a time. Current policies don’t adequately…
- How big oil hooked the world on plastic · 50 min · Episode 64Do you ever feel a sense of personal responsibility for plastic pollution? That reaction is no accident - it’s the result of a decades-long public relations strategy designed to…
- The vaccine lawyer suing RFK Jr. · 38 min · Episode 63There is an ongoing lawsuit between the American Academy of Pediatrics v. Robert F Kennedy Jr., head of HHS. The lead attorney of the lawsuit challenging the HHS vaccine policy…
- Pesticide protections in the crosshairs · 1 h 23 min · Episode 62Two major battles over pesticide policy are unfolding at the federal level, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. The dispute: Can states protect their citizens from pesticide harms…
- Doctor, doctor: How the Trump administration is making America sicker · 40 min · Episode 61This Earth Day, we're not celebrating progress, we're sounding the alarm. In today’s episode, Ken sits down with Dr. Phil Landrigan and Dr. Adam Gaffney, co-authors of a landmark…
- Rina Shah: Principles over power · 48 min · Episode 60What does it look like to stand on principle when everyone around you is playing it safe? In today’s episode, Ken sits down with Rina Shah, a political commentator, GOP…
- Democrats were MAHA before MAHA — Rep. Chellie Pingree unpacks the contradictions · 39 min · Episode 59Long before “Make America Healthy Again,” or MAHA, existed, there was Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine): A self-described hippie, back-to-the-lander, certified organic farmer, and…
- David A. Graham on Project 2025's assault on American government · 36 min · Episode 58Most people heard about Project 2025 during the 2024 presidential campaign. Far fewer understood what it actually was. The Atlantic’s David Graham wrote the definitive book…
- REVISIT: Protecting children from pesticides · 1 h 4 min · Episode 55Many people find EWG while seeking information about pesticides. In today’s episode Ken is joined by our in-house Senior Toxicologist, Dr. Alexis Temkin whose research…
- The plastics problem · 33 min · Episode 54We’ve all seen the headlines about micro and nanoplastics. It’s clear that the public is uneasy with the ubiquity of plastic particles in our food, soil, and water. The plastics…
- Rep. Jim McGovern on ending hunger in the richest country in the world · 25 min · Episode 5348 million Americans are food insecure, congress just cut $200 billion from SNAP, and the upcoming farm bill could make things even worse. But Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)…
- Hilary Swank fights for transparency in baby products · 31 min · Episode 52Motherhood was a wake-up call for Hilary Swank, as she learned about the toxic chemicals lurking in everyday products we trust to keep our babies safe. In today's episode, Ken…
- What happens when the EPA stops protecting the environment? · 49 min · Episode 51Just one year into the Trump administration, the onslaught of attacks on the environment and public health is staggering. The Environmental Protection Agency is leading the…
