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Your Pet’s Topical Flea Treatments Harm Wildlife Pesticides banned from agricultural use in parts of Europe and California are still used in topical flea treatments for pets. Wildlife pays the price.

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We're launching a Senior Fellows Program to support leading env. health scientists & policy experts in developing & implementing new ideas to reduce chemical harm. Inaugural fellows: Meredith Williams, Joel Tickner, Susan Kegley, Lauren Heine & Arlene Blum greensciencepolicy.org/about/senior...

Loophole Lets Toxic Trojan Horse Chemicals Into Everyday Products Polymers are large chemicals that are generally exempt from regulation. New evidence shows they can break down into smaller toxic chemicals, contradicting long-held assumptions of safety.

Polymers are large chemicals that are generally exempt from regulation. New evidence shows they can break down into smaller toxic chemicals, contradicting long-held assumptions of safety. www.forbes.com/sites/arlene...

Environmental impacts of polymeric flame retardant breakdown - Nature Sustainability As a ‘safe’ alternative to harmful monomeric halogenated flame retardants, the use of polymeric flame retardants has surged in recent years. The authors show that polymeric flame retardants break down...

'To escape regulation, flame retardant and #PFAS producers are increasingly pivoting to #polymers for use in everyday products' - @greensciencepolicy.bsky.social.

But a new study in @nature.com shows that polymers may not be safe #NonToxic alternatives after all.

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A ‘Trojan Horse’ for Toxic Chemicals - Inside Climate News Regulation of toxic substances has long exempted synthetic chemicals made of large molecules believed too big to escape products to cause harm. A new study shows how dangerous that assumption is.

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Environmental impacts of polymeric flame retardant breakdown - Nature Sustainability As a ‘safe’ alternative to harmful monomeric halogenated flame retardants, the use of polymeric flame retardants has surged in recent years. The authors show that polymeric flame retardants break down...

New study in @naturesustain.bsky.social demonstrates that polymers used as flame retardants can break down into smaller harmful chemicals. This contradicts the long-held assumption that polymers are too big to be harmful. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What Corporate Sustainability Is Missing And How To Fill The Gap For many companies, sustainability is synonymous with carbon reduction. But with this narrow focus, companies are overlooking their chemical footprint.

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Why Are Toxic Flame Retardants In Your Earbuds? Manufacturers are adding harmful flame retardants to plastic cases surrounding the lithium-ion batteries in earbuds, e-bikes, and more. They may not work.

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High Potential Harm, Questionable Fire-Safety Benefit: Why Are Flame Retardants in Lithium-Ion Battery Enclosures?

🚨As dangerous lithium-ion battery fires are on the rise, regulators and manufacturers are scrambling for solutions. Unfortunately, one common strategy may cause serious health harm and not work to slow or stop the fires. See new viewpoint: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

This Federal Vehicle Fire Safety Regulation Is Backfiring A decades-old NHTSA vehicle flammability standard leads to the use of cancer-causing flame retardants in cars. These chemicals are added into vehicle seat foam, dashboard plastics, and more, without d...

Why are cancer-causing flame retardants in our cars? There is no evidence that this is providing a fire safety benefit. @consumerreports.org @iaffofficial.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/arlene...

Chip Manufacturing Shortcuts Harm Our Health And Environment Though PFAS and other harmful chemicals are common in chipmaking, Congress voted to exempt many federally funded chips manufacturing projects from environmental review.

New article by Arlene Blum in @forbes.com: "Lawmakers can find ways to implement community protections and incentivize innovation away from #PFAS and other harmful chemicals used in chipmaking. The U.S. can’t build a clean energy future on a dirty foundation." www.forbes.com/sites/arlene...

Is Clean Energy Powered By Dirty Batteries? Though lithium-ion batteries are a linchpin of the clean energy transition, they're made with harmful chemicals. The good news is that many of these chemicals are replaceable.

"As we embrace the technologies that can lead us out of the fossil fuel era, we must also ensure that our path forward does not leave a trail of toxicity in its wake. The clean energy revolution should not exchange one form of environmental harm for another." www.forbes.com/sites/arlene... #PFAS