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Podcast: The Lean to the Left Podcast
Episode: The Power of States: Environmental Health Policy and Action
Description: In this episode of the Lean to the Left Podcast, host Bob Gatty talks with environmental health lawyer, professor, and author Susan Kaplan about how states are leading the way on environmental health policy. Drawing from her book, A Healthy Union: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health, Kaplan explains how state-level innovation has produced effective, evidence-based policies that protect public health while reducing costs.🔍 What you’ll learn in this episode:• Why federal environmental protections have eroded — and what states are doing instead• How states act as “laboratories of innovation” for environmental health•...