You know you’re coming at an issue from waaaaay left field when even Connecticut’s Democrat A.G. Richard “Don’t Call Me Dick” Blumenthal declines to agree with you an issue. From Greenwich.com:

A lawmaker plans to ask the General Assembly to halt the installation of artificial turf for one year in Connecticut, even as Norwalk High School athletes begin practicing on their new field this month.

Rep. Kimberly Fawcett, a Democrat whose district includes Fairfield and Westport, wants a moratorium on new fields until the state Department of Environmental Protection concludes an analysis. Nationwide there are concerns that the ground-up tires used to make the fields release harmful substances.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission last week released a study that concluded that children who play on the fields are not at higher risk for ingesting lead. Older fields posed a greater risk of lead ingestion but did not exceed the threshold, the study found.

But concerns remain that the fields expose children to other heavy metals and to chemicals that can cause cancer.

“The state has been messing around with this for a very long time,” said Stacy Prince, a Westport parent. “And this is at least a one-year study. At the same time, kids are playing on these fields – little kids. It’s frightening.”

But not all parents agree.

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