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You’ll Never Believe What Maine Just Did!

Aug 14, 2017Judy LevinChemical Industry, Flame Retardants, Laws & Regulations, Uncategorized

Here’s a new day for our health Maine just accomplished what no other state in the U.S. has managed to do: ban the sale of new upholstered furniture that have harmful and unnecessary flame retardant chemicals. This is an unprecedented move to protect children...

CEH’s Award-Winning Success in Kicking Toxic Chemicals Out of Furniture

May 18, 2017Center for Environmental HealthFlame Retardants

Earlier this month, CEH was awarded the “Market Transformation” Award by by the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) for our work to move the furniture industry towards healthier, less toxic products. CEH’s work educating and assisting major corporations...

Fulfilling the EPA’s Mission, In Spite of Pruitt

Feb 23, 2017Ansje MillerChemical Industry, Children's Health, Environmental Justice, Flame Retardants, Food, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

Last week, the Senate approved Donald Trump’s pick of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as the new chief Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in a 52-46 vote, mostly along party lines. In the end, Senator Susan Collins from Maine was the only...

Car Seats’ Hidden Hazard

Dec 13, 2016Isa GaillardFlame Retardants

Environmental Justice Fellow, Center for Environmental Health In the summer of 2017, my sister will give birth to her first child. She will be the first of our five siblings to become a parent. My excitement to become an uncle grows daily; I know that when the baby is...

Choosing a Chemical Flame-Retardant Free Campus

Nov 4, 2015Joe Allen PhD and Heather Henriksen MPAFlame Retardants

By Heather Henriksen, Director, Harvard Office for Sustainability and Joe Allen, Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Healthy Buildings Program at the Harvard Center for Health and the...

Toxic Hot Seat – Now Available to Download

Sep 8, 2014Theresa ZhangChemical Industry, Environmental Justice, Flame Retardants, Laws & Regulations

Last fall, HBO premiered the documentary “Toxic Hot Seat,” which includes clips from an interview with CEH Executive Director Michael Green. The film, now available to download, takes us on a journey with a courageous group of firefighters, mothers, journalists,...

Starting Early for Safety from Flame Retardants

Jul 22, 2014Center for Environmental HealthChildren's Health, Flame Retardants

A guest post from CEH fan and new dad Eric Wright When we found out we were getting ready to have a baby we had very little knowledge of baby products. The only thing we knew was to go to Babies R’ Us or Buy Buy Baby and buy what looked good. Once there we...

Supporter Spotlight: Jean Hansen

Feb 26, 2014Ali Geering-KlineFlame Retardants, General Insights, Laws & Regulations, Personal Stories

Jean Hansen is the Sustainable Interiors Manager for the global architecture firm, HDR Architecture. She’s been a great supporter of CEH for many years, both as an employee sponsor of the HDR grant application and also as a partner with CEH on safer furniture...

Flame Retardant-Free Furniture? These Companies Are Moving Toward Safer Products

Feb 11, 2014Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, Children's Health, Flame Retardants

In January, we shared the news about the Center for Environmental Health’s landmark legal agreements that aim to end the use of harmful flame retardant chemicals in foam furniture and children’s products from Playtex, West Elm, and other leading companies....

The Last of the Killer Couches

Nov 22, 2013Judy LevinChemical Industry, Children's Health, Flame Retardants, Laws & Regulations

I have hated my couch ever since I found out that it contained a cancer-causing flame retardant chemical. I have longed to get rid of it, but I felt stuck because virtually all furniture also has toxic and/or untested flame retardant chemicals. But now I see light at...