When we think of air pollution, we usually think of smog. But the air indoors is not always as clean as we think. And as the cold weather pushes people indoors, the air inside our homes is the air we breathe the most. In a pandemic year, the quality of indoor air takes on even greater importance than usual. Why […]
Somewhere around the turn of the century, people began to realize that new car smell is actually an unhealthy combination of 50-60 VOCs off-gassing from plastics, vinyl, and glues. For a while, environmentalists paid a lot of attention to avoiding VOCs, but it’s hard to maintain attention these days. The Federal Trade Commission is responsible for handling false advertising claims, […]