Legislation that bans the sale of certain types of bedding and furniture treated with a controversial flame retardant chemical became law in Rhode Island at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, making its way ...

Manufacturers and retailers in Massachusetts will be banned from selling or importing covered products like bedding, furniture, children's products, window treatments and carpeting that contain 11 ...

Babies' and children's mattresses and bedding emit toxic chemicals and flame retardants associated with developmental and hormonal disorders, according to two new studies. "We measured chemicals ...

Babies and children may breathe and absorb plasticizers called phthalates, flame retardants, and other chemicals from their ...

A measure banning a broad class of flame retardants from furniture and bedding cleared the Assembly late Wednesday night, while a controversial effort to ban one of the most widely used chemical ...

An LAist investigation found toxic heavy metals in samples of fire retardant collected from the Palisades, Eaton and Franklin fires. Here's what that means.

Banned flame retardants. One well-studied type of flame retardant called polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, is the “greatest contributor to intellectual disability” in children ...