Kyla Bennett, a former official with the EPA, is a science policy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), and one of the nation’s top experts on PFAS.
If the NFL were to decide to rid its stadiums of artificial turf, it “would be a game changer,” Bennett said — no matter if the league was motivated by player injuries, or worries about their exposure to forever chemicals. “I think it would be much harder for high schools to say we need artificial turf for our players to be competitive when the most competitive football franchise in the world is saying we don’t want this s—,” she said.
“It would be huge.”
