An investigative environmental health show that asks the question: why are chemicals presumed innocent until proven deadly?

In the first season of Hazard, listeners will follow host Amy Roost, a journalist and mother, in her quest for answers to her three children’s brain malformations. Roost will tell the story of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, once a common ingredient in household flea bombs, that federal regulators later discovered was toxic to fetuses and young children. The chemical was pulled from commercial products, but thanks to a fatal flaw in the U.S. approach to chemicals regulation, Dow Chemical struck a...