Don’t miss the Tribune’s exposé of the flame retardant industry.

The Chicago Tribune is running a brilliant investigative series on how flame retardants came to be used in so many of the products that we buy. It turns out that a) they don’t actually stop fires even a little bit b) they cause serious health problems and c) tobacco companies created a fake public interest group to push for laws requiring these useless, expensive chemicals in order to avoid having to create cigarettes that wouldn’t light furniture on fire. →