That clarification came after the appearance of a single sentence in the reconstruction plans of the city’s Malcolm X Park in Roxbury. A notation in the plan stated: “Mayor Wu has directed that no new artificial turf fields will be installed in the City of Boston.”
Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the environmental nonprofit heralded the statement as a sign of the city’s support of recent health discoveries about a group of chemicals known as PFAS, or so-called “forever chemicals,” in artificial turf.
