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For Corporate Polluters’ Front Groups, Every Day is Defraud the Earth Day

Apr 22, 2010Charles MargulisChemical Industry, Children's Health, Flame Retardants

If you heard of a great, health-protective advocacy group called Citizens for Fire Safety (CFFS), you might want to learn more before joining their efforts to protect children from fire hazards. So it might really annoy, disappoint, even enrage you to learn that they...

CEH Ally Arlene Blum Shares the Real Deal on Flame Retardants

Apr 6, 2010Ali Geering-KlineFlame Retardants, Personal Stories

Executive Director of the Green Science Policy Institute, Arlene Blum works with CEH to research the effects of flame retardants and push for chemical reform to get these toxic chemicals out of consumer products. Hundreds of studies have shown that flame...

Flame Retardants – Preventing More than Fire

Jan 27, 2010Sean SullivanFlame Retardants

The Center for Environmental Health has long been championing the importance of full disclosure about chemicals included in all products that could be harmful to everyone, but especially women of child bearing years. We’ve been leading the way to remove hazardous...

Toxic Chemicals in Your Living Room

Dec 28, 2009Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Flame Retardants, Laws & Regulations

Toxic chemicals and your home —not two things we want to hear together in the same sentence. But toxic chemicals are much more ubiquitous in our homes than we’d like to think. For example, for years, chemical companies have been pouring their fire retardant chemicals...

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