Aug 30, 2018Zack KaldveerChemical Industry, Flame Retardants, Laws & Regulations
Measure extends to mattresses and restricts existing and future substances ‘regardless of safety’By Kelly Franklin, Chemical WatchCalifornia’s legislature has passed a bill banning the use of most flame retardants in children’s products, mattresses and upholstered...
Apr 26, 2018Alvaro Palacios CasanovaChemical Industry, Children's Health, Flame Retardants, Laws & Regulations
By Avinash Kar, NRDC; Alvaro Casanova, Center for Environmental Health; and Carroll Wills, California Professional Firefighters What if I told you that you have been and continue to be exposed to dangerous chemicals in your home for no good reason? What if these...
Mar 3, 2016Charles MargulisUncategorized
Oakland, CA-The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) has initiated legal action against the car seat maker Orbit Baby, demanding that the company recall its car seats made with the toxic flame retardant chemical chlorinated Tris (Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl)phosphate...
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...
Jul 1, 2015Charles MargulisFlame Retardants
Leading furniture companies offering safer furniture made without toxic flame retardant chemicals Oakland, CA-More than 50 furniture companies representing billions of dollars in annual sales are now selling products made without toxic flame retardant chemicals,...
Dec 11, 2014Charles MargulisChemical Industry, Flame Retardants
Companies spending more than $520 million annually on furniture call on suppliers to offer safer products without flame retardant chemicals Oakland, CA- The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) today published a list of companies that sell office furniture made...
Sep 30, 2014Charles MargulisUncategorized
The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) is praising California Governor Jerry Brown and State Senator Mark Leno for their leadership in protecting children and families from harmful flame retardant chemicals. Today Governor Brown signed Senator Leno’s bill (S....
Sep 3, 2014Theresa ZhangChemical Industry, Environmental Justice, Flame Retardants, Laws & Regulations
By Michael Hawthorne, Tribune reporter contact the reporter August 29, 2014, 7:05pm Consumers nationwide are closer to being able to buy furniture made without toxic, ineffective flame retardants after a California judge on Friday threw out a legal challenge from the...
Jul 7, 2014Theresa ZhangChemical Industry, Flame Retardants
SANDY BAUERS, INQUIRER GREENSPACE COLUMNIST POSTED: Sunday, June 8, 2014, 8:51 AM In the market for some new furniture? That couch or armchair is changing – for the better, many health and environmental advocates say. For that, we can thank California. For...
Jul 7, 2014Theresa ZhangFlame Retardants
Gary Cohn, Capital and Main on June 24, 2014 For years firefighters and environmentalists have warned of the dangers from upholstered furniture treated with flame-retardant chemicals that are linked to cancer, decreased fertility, hormone disruption and lower IQ...
