Is Your Couch Trying to Kill You?

Is Your Couch Trying to Kill You?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-24/is-your-couch-trying-to-kill-you-.html

"Imagine if government officials knew that certain chemicals were hazardous enough to cause health problems as serious as cancer and neurological defects, yet were largely powerless to restrict them. That, in a nutshell, is the state of chemical regulation in the U.S. On paper, the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate or ban toxic substances. In practice, the agency faces so many hurdles that it hasn't tried to do so since it made an ill-fated run at asbestos in 1991."