Summer may be over, but there’s a hot debate brewing that’s becoming more intense and thought provoking by the day, and it’s all about — grass? Yes, grass. As school districts look to resurface their ...

When a Los Angeles City Council committee approved a motion calling for a feasibility study into a potential ban on artificial grass in L.A., Kelly Shannon McNeil, associate director of the nonprofit ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ...

Players in the girls 2014 pre-academy soccer team practice at Cubberley’s turf soccer field in Palo Alto on January 28, 2025. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. It’s a dark and frigid Tuesday night but the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom last week passed on a chance to limit the use of the so-called “forever chemicals” in legions of plastic products when he vetoed a bill that would have banned them in synthetic lawns ...

Even though the Los Angeles Rams are based in a good weather location, they play their home games on artificial turf. Here Seahawks Kenneth Walker III (9) is brought down by Rams Kamren Kinchens (26) ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 1, 2023) As communities consider maintenance and renovation of their playing fields, it is not uncommon for synthetic (or artificial) turf to come up as an alternative to ...

Super Bowl LVIII will be played on a natural grass field in an indoor stadium in Las Vegas on February 11, 2024. How do you keep a grass field vibrant in such a hostile growing environment like the ...

Artificial grass has become popular across the UK, but councils and environmental groups are starting to question its impact.

Since Cornell University announced the Meinig Fieldhouse Project in October 2023, local environmental advocacy nonprofit Zero ...