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Plastics, GHGs, and Networking with Veena Singla

February 24, 2023 • Dr. Veena Singla • Episode 107

Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Veena Singla, Senior Scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council about Plastics, GHGs, and Networking. Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:
2:50 Nic & Laura talk about decision fatigue
8:59 Interview with Dr. Veena Singla starts
15:34 Networking
24:29 Plastics
32:10 GHGs
37:45 Field Notes

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Connect with Veena Singla at https://www.linkedin.com/in/veenasingla/

Guest Bio:
Veena Singla is a Senior Scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Adjunct Assistant professor at Columbia University. Her work seeks to address health disparities linked to harmful environmental exposures using an interdisciplinary approach incorporating environmental health, exposure science, public health and policy expertise. Her research investigates how toxic pollution from systems of materials use, production and disposal threaten the health of impacted communities.

She serves on the US EPA Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee, the National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors, the Board of Directors for Clean Production Action, and as Associate Director for the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Program.

Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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