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A talk with addiction specialist Dr. Sheldon Weinberg, an excerpt of a talk by tobacco control expert Dr. Stanton Glantz, and CEH's Caroline Cox on cancer-causing chemicals in e-cigarettes.

Born out of a global expedition fearlessly undertaken by a young woman, Project Animal Farm offers a riveting and revealing look at what truly happens behind farm doors. Also, an update on the use of animal drugs in meat production from Cameron Harsh of the Center for Food Safety.

Grant Gillham ran a phony "citizens" group for the chemical industry - now he's speaking out about his former clients' lies. And John Stauber, author of the classic expose of corporate propanganda, "Toxic Sludge is Good For You."

Evaggelos Vallianatos worked at the EPA for 25 years, and his new book Poison Spring outlines how the chemical industry’s influence has derailed regulations on pesticides and other toxic chemicals. Also, Jay Feldman of Beyond Pesticides on pesticide use in marijuana production – should you be concerned about pesticide residues when you light one up? And CEH’s own Caroline Cox on our work to protect children and families from disease-causing pesticides.

What happens when government regulators seem more concerned with protecting the profits of the corporations that they’re supposed to be regulating than in protecting our health or the environment? We hear from two journalists who follow the problem of politics and corporate interstes trumping science at EPA and FDA. And CEH Executive Director Michael Green tells about the role CEH played in California’s review of hexavalent chromium, the chemical made famous by the movie Erin Brockovich.

What does environmental health and justice have to do with the Black Lives Matter movement? We asked three CEH team members to discuss race, environmental justice, and their concerns around #blacklivesmatter. And, we hear a brief excerpt from CEH Eastern States Director Ansje Miller's remarks at a recent rally on the 5th anniversary of the Citizens United decision.

A talk with Dr. B.J. Miller, Executive Director of San Francisco's Zen Hospice Project, and with long-time ZHP volunteer Mary Doane.

U.S. research labs can create even deadlier strains of Ebola, influenza, and other infectious diseases, in so-called “gain-of-function” research. We hear from biosafety expert Edward Hammond on threats from lab-created superbugs. Also, food safety lawyer Bill Marler and health threats from the hormone-altering chemical BPA, from Connie Engel of the Breast Cancer Fund.

It's our Halloween show, and we talk to the most fun mortician on the planet, Caitlin Doughty. You may know her from her popular webcast "Ask a Mortician," hosted on her website "Order of the Good Death." We talk about morbid kids (it gets better), "secondary flaccidity," the greatest death movie ever, and her new book, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Other Lessons from the Crematory."

What do animated political cartoons, mass non-violent direct actions, and a global search for humor have in common? Is that the start of a joke? No, it’s today’s episode on creativity in activism! We talk to Peter McGraw, author of The Humor Code; Pulitzer Prize winning animator Mark Fiore and Paul Paz y Miño of Amazon Watch; and activist John Sellers of Agit-Pop Communications.