Draft-proofing your garage can make a significant difference in maintaining your home’s overall comfort and energy efficiency ...

Your attic’s insulation plays a big role in maintaining energy efficiency, reducing utility bills, and keeping your home at a ...

Key Laboratory of New Processing Technology for Non-ferrous Metals and Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology (GUT), Guilin 541004, China ...

Since the 1970s, flame-retardant chemicals have been added to plastics used in electronic devices. Their purpose is to prevent electrical fires or slow their growth. But because many of these ...

A study in the journal Chemosphere in December concluded that toxic brominated flame retardants and organophosphate flame retardants might be present at dangerous levels in some products ...

We live in a small detached house. When we bought it many years ago, we had spray foam loft insulation installed. We were told at the time that it came with a guarantee, that ventilation was not ...

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 ...

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 ...

As firefighters continue making progress on the Franklin Fire, which burned more than 4,000 acres in Malibu this week, mandatory evacuation orders were lifted and downgraded to warnings Friday.

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 ...