Biologist Sandra Steingraber wrote about evidence linking cancer with environmental toxics in her book “Living Downstream.” Now she brings her case to the big screen in a new film of the same name. Host Steve Curwood talks with Steingraber about her efforts to make the environment part of the public health discussion.
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