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In the News: City & State New York May 21, 2021

Inside the chemical lobby’s unusual campaign to protect the fire retardant business

Eve Gartner, Managing Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program, Earthjustice: “This pseudo-campaign shows the chemical industry’s desperation around this bill.”

Taking on toxics.
feature May 10, 2018

Insider Briefing: Taking on Toxics

Earthjustice attorneys and policy staff discuss recent victories and the fights ahead to keep dangerous chemicals out of our homes and environment.

A phone call between Earthjustice attorney Eve Gartner (left) and scientist Arlene Blum in 2011 led to breakthroughs in the effort to remove flame retardant chemicals from household items.
(Matt Roth for Earthjustice; Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Article January 24, 2018

How Two Women Teamed Up to Take on the Chemical Industry—and Won

Earthjustice attorney Eve Gartner and scientist Arlene Blum worked together to convince the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban an entire class of toxic flame retardants.

Dana Baiocco before her Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing.
(Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Article November 7, 2017

Trump’s Consumer Advocate Nominee Often Fights Consumers

Industry attorney Dana Baiocco is just the latest in a series of Trump picks that put people at the helm of regulatory agencies they have spent their careers attacking.

Muchos muebles y productos para niños contienen retardantes de fuego; una comisión federal ha solicitado prohibir todas aquellas que son nocivas para los humanos.
(SIRTRAVELALOT / SHUTTERSTOCK)
Article October 23, 2017

Tras la presión de organizaciones civiles, comisión federal accede restringir retardantes de fuego nocivos para la salud

La reciente decisión de la Comisión Federal de Seguridad de Productos para el Consumidor puede ser un parteaguas para regular productos tóxicos en productos del hogar y proteger la salud pública.

Many children's products and pieces of furniture include flame retardants. A federal commission recently called for a ban on an entire class of flame retardants that cause harmful effects in humans.
(sirtravelalot / Shutterstock)
Article: Victory October 19, 2017

In First for Consumer Safety, Federal Commission Moves to Ban Entire Class of Toxic Flame Retardants

The chemical industry’s oft-used ploy of substituting one bad chemical for another may finally be on its way out.

Press Release September 28, 2017

Gobierno pide al público evitar muebles, productos para niños y electrónicos con retardantes de fuego

Los retardantes de fuego están asociados con cáncer, problemas de fertilidad y afectaciones al desarrollo neurológico infantil

Firefighters agree that it's time to get rid of toxic flame retardants. These chemicals are associated with serious human health problems, including cancer, reproductive issues and developmental impairments.
(TheImageArea/iStock)
Press Release: Victory September 20, 2017

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Calls for Removal of a Class of Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products

Votes to begin rulemaking process to protect consumers, firefighters from hazardous flame retardant chemicals in furniture, mattresses, kids’ products and electronic casings

Firefighters agree that it's time to get rid of toxic flame retardants. These chemicals are associated with serious human health problems, including cancer, reproductive issues and developmental impairments.
(TheImageArea/iStock)
Press Release: Victory September 20, 2017

Comisión de Seguridad de los Productos de Consumo busca proteger a consumidores y bomberos de químicos tóxicos retardantes de fuego

Químicos en muebles, colchones, productos para niños y electrónicos están asociados con el desarrollo de cáncer, problemas neurológicos en infantes y problemas de fertilidad

Firefighters agree that it's time to get rid of toxic flame retardants. These chemicals are associated with serious human health problems, including cancer, reproductive issues and developmental impairments.
(TheImageArea/iStock)
Article February 1, 2016

American People to Safety Commission: Ban Harmful Flame Retardants!

Firefighters, doctors, nurses, parents and cancer survivors agree: It’s time to get rid of flame retardants.

Toxic flame retardants found in furniture, children’s products and other common household goods turn out to be ineffective at preventing the most common types of fires—those started by smoldering cigarettes.
(Courtney Emery/CC BY-ND 2.0)
Article December 10, 2015

Toxic Flame Retardants Are A Known Health Hazard and Should Be Banned

Toxic flame retardants are not only ineffective at preventing the most common types of fires, but they are linked to cancer, neurological disorders, impaired fertility and developmental problems.

feature September 16, 2015

Firefighters Turn Up The Heat On Flame Retardants

Flame retardants are among more than 80,000 chemicals on the market that have not been adequately tested for health and safety. They have received increased scrutiny for their potential health impacts on firefighters, as well as on the general public.

document June 30, 2015

Petition to Consumer Product Safety Commission

Re: 16 CFR § 1051 Petition for Rulemaking. Petition to the Consumer Product Safety Commission to adopt rules to protect consumers and children from the health hazards caused when toxic flame retardant chemicals are used in four categories of household products.

97% of U.S. residents are at a greater risk of harm from toxic flame retardants in their bodies.
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Article April 16, 2015

Coalition Seeks Ban on Flame Retardants

Health, firefighter, consumer and science groups are calling on the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban certain consumer products if they contain any organohalogen flame retardants—a class of chemicals that counts dioxins and the pesticide DDT among its ranks.

Flame retardant chemicals migrate continuously out from everyday household products into the air and dust, such as when a guest sits on a sofa or a baby is laid down on a crib’s mattress.
(Photo courtesy of Lynn-Anne Burns)
case March 31, 2015

Banning Household Products With Toxic Chemical Flame Retardants

A broad coalition of health, firefighter, consumer and science groups are asking the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to ban four categories of consumer products—children’s products, furniture, mattresses and the casings around electronics—if they contain any flame retardant in the chemical class known as organohalogens. Petitioners include the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Hispanic…

Children are especially at-risk because they come into greater contact with household dust than adults. The most effective solution is to ban products containing this entire class of chemicals.
(Cacaye / Flickr)
Press Release March 31, 2015

Health, Firefighter, Consumer and Science Groups Seek Ban on Household Products With Toxic Chemical Flame Retardants

97% of U.S. residents at risk from toxic organohalogen flame retardants in their bodies