Firefighters push ban on flame-retardant chemicals
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Minnesota firefighters are pushing the state to ban certain flame-retardant chemicals.
They say those chemicals contribute to high cancer rates among firefighters.
But efforts to pass a ban have stalled in the Minnesota House.
MPR's Phil Picardi spoke with Dr. Susan Shaw, director and founder of the Marine & Environmental Research Institute in Blue Hill, Maine. Shaw, who has studied the connection between flame retardants and cancer, is in town to testify at the Legislature about the issue.
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