Sharon Lerner

Sharon Lerner appears in the following:

Big Plastic vs. The World

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Many people are ditching single-use straws and silverware. What is Big Plastic doing to stay afloat? 

Cover-Up of Toxic Chemicals in 3M Products

Wednesday, August 08, 2018

Sharon Lerner takes a deep dive into documents from a lawsuit against the company 3M. 

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Not All Apples Keep the Doctor Away

Thursday, February 02, 2017

Journalist Sharon Lerner discusses her piece “Poison Fruit,” about the evidence that exposure to a Dow pesticide, chlorpyrifos, is linked with dire problems for children.

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Johnny Loves Joni

Thursday, December 01, 2016

Performance artist John Kelly on why his impersonation of Joni Mitchell is more of an homage than a parody.  

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The New Chemical in Your Cookware that's as Toxic as Teflon

Thursday, March 17, 2016

A special investigation revealed that the DuPont chemical introduced in 2009 to replace the Teflon toxin causes many of the same deadly health problems.

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How NJ Failed to Regulate Toxic Chemicals in Drinking Water

Friday, August 21, 2015

Sharon Lerner, freelance journalist who covers health and the environment, reports on how Governor Christie quashed efforts to create a safe threshold of chemicals in NJ drinking water.

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Family Leave: A Luxury for a Few American Women

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Only 13 percent of U.S. workers have access to paid family leave through their employers. And nearly one in four American women take less than two weeks off work after giving birth. 

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Insuring NY's Last Million

Monday, November 17, 2014

The roughly one million New Yorkers who are still uninsured may be the hardest to enroll in the second year of Obamacare.

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