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News Flame Retardant Companies Fire Front Group, Run to American Chemistry Council, Chicago Tribune August 31, 2012 Chicago Tribune series on flame retardants sparks widespread reaction July 10, 2012 WBEZ Is Your Couch Trying to Kill You ? June 25, 2012 Bloomberg Editorial *Minnesota legislators among those questioning lobbying tactics on flame retardants* June 15, 2012 Minn Post Consumer Group: Investigate Flame Retardant Industry For Possible Violation Of California Law June 13, 2012 Sacramento Bee *Former UW burn doctor admonished for advocacy on behalf of flame retardants* June 11, 2012 Seattle Times New York should ban toxic and ineffective fire-retardant chemicals June 7, 2012 Newsday *Maine Legislators Angry at Flame Retardant Chemical Industry DeceptionJune 7, 2012 Maine Environmental News* Flame retardant linked to obesity, anxiety, developmental problems, pilot study finds June 6, 2012 Chicago Tribune 21 State Legislators Send Letter to American Chemistry Council, Demanding Ouster of Unethical Flame Retardant Corporations June 5, 2012, Republic Report What The Tobacco Lobby Has To Do With Flame Retardant Products May 31, 2012 Hear and Now (Radio) Flame Retardants and Chemical Manufacturers - Benefits a Bunch of Smoke? May 25, 2012 Injury Board Durbin Calls for Chemical Regulation Chicago Tribune May 24, 2012 Are Flame Retardants Especially Toxic to Minority Kids? May 24, 2012 Mother Jones Toxic Flame Retardants: Why Does Kids’ Exposure Vary by Race and Socioeconomics? Time Healthland May 23, 2012 Higher levels of flame retardants found in minority children Study's findings challenge key industry argument for expanding use of chemicals Chicago Tribune May 23, 2012 Do Fire Retardants Work? And Since They Don't, Why is Their Use Mandated in Furniture? Reason May 23, 2012 Toxic Flame Retardants Found on Toddler's Hands Sacramento Bee May 23, 2012 The Chicago Tribune lights up the flame retardant industry, Columbia Journalism Review May 21, 2012 Flame Retardants and our Political Mess, Nicholas Kristof New York Times May 19, 2012 Are You Safe on that Sofa? Nicholas Kristof, New York Times May 19, 2012 US lawmakers call for action on halogenated flame retardants, Chemical Watch May 17, 2012 Chicago Tribune: Distorting Science- Makes of Flame Retardants Manipulate Research Findings To Back Their Products, Downplay Health Risks, Green Buckeye RN May 15, 2012 Flame Retardant Rules Result of Deception, Says Investigation Environmental Building News May 14, 2012 Illinois Senator Queries EPA, CPSC on flame retardant oversight Pesticide & Chemical Policy May 14, 2012 Report Describes Role of Tobacco Industry, Fire Marshals in Flame-Retardant Campaign Fire Engineering 5/14/12 Sarah Janssen's LTE in the Chicago Tribune May 14, 2012 Durbin's news release 5/14/12 Durbin urges action on hazardous flame retardants Senator responds to Tribune's 'Playing With Fire' series 5/11/12 Chicago Tribune Article Outs Organization Lobbying for School Bus Flame Retardant Laws School Transportation News 5/11/12 'The fire just laughs at it' A public health debacle over flame retardants Chicago Tribune Editorial 5/11/12 Flame Retardant Firemaster 550 Under Fire MSDSonline, 5/11/12 Report on Tobacco's Influence Raises Many Ethical, Safety Questions FireChief.com 5/10/12 Seattle doctor's false testimony on flame retardants Seattle Times 5/10/12 Investigative series brings industry defense tactics on flame retardants into national focus Pesticide & Toxic Chemical News 5/10/12 Flame retardants in furniture foam – weighing the evidence Risk Science May 10, 2012 Flame Retardants Are Toxic & Haven't Been Shown to Save Lives. Why Are They Ubiquitous? Discover Magazine 5/9/12 Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire Sightline Daily 5/8/12 Lies, damned lies, and flame-retardant furntiure Boing Boing 5/8/12 Report links flame retardants and tobacco industry Plastics News 5/8/12 Report: Tobacco money helped shift focus of house fires to furniture Furniture Today 5/8/12 Report: Safety of furniture flame retardant foam questioned Furniture Today 5/7/12 Flame Retardant Furniture Won't Save Your Imaginary Baby Atlantic Wire 5/7/12 *Flame Retardants can cause Lowered IQ, Learning Disabilities, Infertility, other Reproductive Problems, and Endocrine DisordersThom Hartmann Program* 5/7/12 Chem industry tactics raise questions on kids’ products Bellingham Herald** 5/7/12	Chicago Tribune Reports: Toxic Flame Retardant Industry Uses Deception Chicago Tribune Series 5/05/12- 5/10/12 (includes video) News Advisories with experts and direct contact information Chemical Industry Challenged to Repudiate Unethical Members, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families May 17, 2012 New 'Code of Conduct' needed, ASBC says, in response to Chicago Tribune Investigation of flame retardant industry 5/10/12 Reaction to Trib Expose from scientists, health advocates more 5/8/12 California Groups Respond to Trib News more 5/7/12 Blogs Tracey Easthope, Healthier Hospitals Initiative Flame retardants don't work, and are hazardous, May 6, 2012 Sarah Janssen's Blog, The tragic truth about one doctor's lies revealed 5/8/12 Richard Denison's Blogs, The truth will out: Chemical industry’s deceptive tactics are eventually exposed 5/6/12 & ACC missing in action this week, no doubt feeling burned 5/10/12 Laurie Valeriano's Blog, Industry Tactics Hit New Lows 5/9/12 Andy Igrejas in Huffington Post The Charade Is Over: Tribune Series Reveals Chemical Industry Lies Like Tobacco 5/10/12 Mike Belliveau's Blog, Stop Playing with Fire 5/10/12 Daniel Rosenberg's Blog, Profile of the Chemical Industry: Power, Corruption & Lies 5/11/12 RH Reality Check, Kirsten Moore Catching Fire: Inflaming Our Passion to Pass the Safer Chemicals Act May 18, 2012 Victoria Rome Now is the Time Californians: Taking Action on Flame Retardants June 7, 201	In Products In Homes In People In Fires In Focus

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