Los Angeles weighing artificial grass ban

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 Los Angeles Waterkeeper, saw the move as an “incredibly positive step.”

The city council’s Energy and Environment Committee voted on June 28 to approve a study in order to understand the health impacts of artificial turf — a product that is widely used by schools, homeowners and many others, but which can contain synthetic chemicals known as polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

McNeil has spent years advocating for environmental and water resource causes, and she said the issue of PFAS and other “forever chemicals” is especially important to her as a mother of a two-year-old.

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