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New study rates best and worst garden hoses: lead, phthalates & hazardous flame retardants in garden hoses

Lead leaches into water from hoses, study finds, the market is shifting to safer materials and products

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New federal action on toxic flame retardants

This week, New York Senator Chuck Schumer will introduce a new bill, The Children and Firefighter Protection Act, to ban the ten most notoriously toxic flame retardant chemicals in residential upholstered furniture and children’s products, and to set up a process to examine and regulate other similar chemicals.

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Health leaders and film makers stand together against controversial chemical bill

Thousands spurred to action across the country

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Andy Igrejas, cancer, director of Safer Chemicals, Health leaders and film makers, healthy families, hormone disruption, Kirby Walker, onsite exposures to toxic chemicals and gasses, President of San Francisco Fire Fighters Cancer Prevention Foundation, scientific research, The campaign’s goal, Tony Stefani, toxic chemicals in flame retardants, Toxic hot Seat

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