FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. - Parents on San Juan Island are worried that the Friday Harbor Elementary School playground could be hazardous to their kids' health. The playground contains "crumb rubber," tiny ...

Over the past few months, numerous national media outlets have published stories about the potential health risks of a material commonly used on playground surfaces—crumb rubber. Crumb rubber is a ...

For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has endorsed the use of ground-up tires to cushion the surfaces of children's playgrounds and sports fields -- a decision now being reconsidered because ...

The head of the nation’s top consumer safety watchdog group is calling for a multi-agency federal investigation into health hazards allegedly linked to tire crumb rubber artificial turf and playground ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Children play at Janney Elementary School's playground in DC's Tenleytown neighborhood. Their families did not know that at the same time, two scientific laboratories found ...

We’re days away from learning if a rubber material used on playgrounds and athletic fields are safe for children. Three federal agencies are researching the health risks of rubber tire crumb. Their ...

WEST HARTFORD >> If U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s children were still playing high school sports, he might think twice about letting them play on synthetic turf fields made or infilled with crumb ...

Schools, child-care providers, parks and playgrounds should follow the Kentucky environmental agency's lead and hold off on building new crumb rubber surfaces until more is known about their health ...

Health, the environment, and wildlife. These are only a few areas of life that the installation of crumb rubber (recycled tire rubber) on playgrounds and playing fields negatively affects. My goal in ...

Recycled rubber playground surfaces seem like a win-win situation. When children fall, they’re more likely to bounce than break bones. And the springy, low-maintenance ground cover, which is also used ...

Recycled rubber playground surfaces seem like a win-win situation. When children fall, they’re more likely to bounce than break bones. And the springy, low-maintenance ground cover, which is also used ...