SF Board of Supes exhibit While San Francisco was digging itself deeper and playing politics with their children's health care -- Mother Nature would being heard-- with a vengeance.
As early as 2007, former CDC toxicologist David Brown of Environment and Human Health, Inc. had predicted, “it would take 10 years before cancer cases associated with styrene butadiene (SBR) artificial turf fields would start popping up”.
Synthetic turf and cancer [click pic] Within seven years a notable pattern of cancer cases was already emerging. In 2008, KOMO in Seattle reported on a case of a star soccer player diagnosed with cancer -- speculating on a synthetic turf connection.
In 2014, NBC Nightly News broadcast multiple stories revealing a significant cancer cluster (including deaths) associated with synthetic turf. The Today Show did the same. US Representative Frank Pallone of NJ was spurred to ask for further governmental study .
In 2014, NBC Nightly News broadcast multiple stories revealing a significant cancer cluster (including deaths) associated with synthetic turf. The Today Show did the same. US Representative Frank Pallone of NJ was spurred to ask for further governmental study .
The SBR cancer connection was now a hot groundbreaking story. Cities across the country immediately ran their own follow ups. TV stations in Boston, Philadelphia, Houston, Chicago, and more did broadcasts on it. Internet websites from Huffington Post to SoccerWire.com covered it. Forbes Magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, USA Today, and others published investigative follow-ups.
The story was quickly picked up in every major market except one -- SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco -- one of the five largest media markets in the country and considered a leader in the environmental movement and children's health -- was the only major city who apparently managed to not find this breaking story newsworthy. While filling their advertising with the Fisher family owned Gap and Old Navy ads -- no major San Francisco television or print news outlet ran a follow-up story on the synthetic turf cancer concerns.
Since at least 2007, the San Francisco media had received reams of reports on the toxicity of the styrene butadiene synthetic turf from medical professionals and environmental resources.
Yet -- they and San Francisco Political pundits held their tongues about the national cancer revelations -- even in the midst of two active San Francisco legal court cases involving SBR toxicity / the City / and City Fields Foundation -- and even though San Francisco had over 12,000,000 lbs of SBR crumb dust blowing about children's play fields.
In September 2014 the New York Times and NBC News had included a story about San Francisco’s November ballots and the City Fields Foundation (CFF) synthetic turf projects in its coverage.
The story was quickly picked up in every major market except one -- SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco -- one of the five largest media markets in the country and considered a leader in the environmental movement and children's health -- was the only major city who apparently managed to not find this breaking story newsworthy. While filling their advertising with the Fisher family owned Gap and Old Navy ads -- no major San Francisco television or print news outlet ran a follow-up story on the synthetic turf cancer concerns.
Since at least 2007, the San Francisco media had received reams of reports on the toxicity of the styrene butadiene synthetic turf from medical professionals and environmental resources.
Yet -- they and San Francisco Political pundits held their tongues about the national cancer revelations -- even in the midst of two active San Francisco legal court cases involving SBR toxicity / the City / and City Fields Foundation -- and even though San Francisco had over 12,000,000 lbs of SBR crumb dust blowing about children's play fields.
In September 2014 the New York Times and NBC News had included a story about San Francisco’s November ballots and the City Fields Foundation (CFF) synthetic turf projects in its coverage.
Appeal for class action plaintiffs Parents and neighbors living adjacent to these SBR fields were being left to fend for themselves.
Already lawyers were getting in line to file class action lawsuits -- and health insurance companies were beginning to promote synthetic turf risk policies.
