How safe are your clothes? Speaker talks about everyday toxics, mountaineering

How safe is your raincoat? Or your carpet? Biophysical chemist Arlene Blum, the director of the Green Science Policy Institute, is speaking in Anchorage Tuesday about how the chemicals in our everyday items could be impacting our health.
Arlene Blum: There are certain families of chemicals that are known to be harmful. One example, people may not realize is stain-repellants, like Scotch-Guard which is used to make Gore-Tex and Teflon. Those are some of the most persistent chemicals. Like they wo