
I was driving home recently with my car’s radio tuned to WLIW, and I was listening to Living on Earth’s Bobby Bascomb interview with Dr. Leonardo Trasande, director of NYU Langone’s Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards and a leader in children’s environmental health, about the recent publication of a study for which he was the lead researcher. Bobby and Dr. Trasande were speaking about phthalates, exposure to them, and how they are a threat to all of us, yet hidden in plain sight. Even after I arrived home and pulled into the driveway I sat paralyzed in my car, transfixed by what I was hearing.