Researchers detected flame retardants in household items made from recycled black plastic. The study later received a correction — but regardless of this paper, the chemicals' health effects ...
Should you throw out your black plastic spatula? A recent study that reported alarming levels of several flame retardants in common black-colored plastic items (including cooking utensils ...
In a recommendation made on Wednesday, the European Chemicals Agency, ECHA, warned that aromatic brominated flame retardants (ABFRs) are of particular concern when used as additives that do not ...
Earthjustice is suing the EPA over its weak regulation of decaBDE, a type of flame retardant that poses serious risks to the health of both people and wildlife. When a recent study found that ...
The system can create a barrier by launching a series of fire retardant-filled capsules filled to surround a medium-sized patch of land, something on the order of a neighborhood, resort ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Mattresses, upholstered furniture, and electronic displays riddled with flame retardant chemicals will be banned from sale in New York effective December 1. This only ...
A helitanker was seen dropping fire retardant onto a fast-moving wildfire sweeping through Malibu on Tuesday night, December 10. The Franklin fire had spread to over 3,900 acres with seven percent ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect the public from a dangerous flame retardant — decabromodiphenyl ether, or decaBDE — according to a lawsuit filed this week on ...
A major fire broke out at a plywood company warehouse located in the MRP Industrial Estate, Bapane, Naigaon East, creating panic among local residents and business owners. The incident occurred on ...