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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Pregnant women, young children especially at risk

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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