Summer’s end ushers kids home from summer camp and beach houses, and back into city parks. At the Diana Ross Playground in Central Park, children shout happily to one another as they chase each other ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission scared parents this week about wood playground equipment causing cancer in children. It’s another case of a make-believe health risk leading to very real costs ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 25, 2009) Although phased out from use in playground, deck and landscaping timbers, chromated-copper-arsenic (CCA), a hazardous wood preservative still allowed for use on ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously to deny a petition to ban the use of chromated copper arsenate pressure-treated wood in playground equipment. CCA manufacturers and the ...

2003-02-08 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- Scientists at the Consumer Products Safety Commission said Friday that children playing on millions of outdoor wood playground sets nationwide faced an increased ...

In Largo, mother Olivia Robison planned to build a wooden playground in the back yard. She was ready to order wood from Home Depot or Lowe's when she found out the wood she planned to use had arsenic ...

The government and the lumber industry are talking about halting the manufacture of arsenic-treated wood. Such a move makes sense. Bad press and lawsuits over the wood's health risks have taken a toll ...

If there’s one thing wood knows how to do, it’s rot. Expose lumber to the elements, and within as few as five years, sun, rain, termites and fungus can reduce it to pulp. That’s why builders were so ...

Children's exposure to arsenic and chromium from playground equipment constructed with chromated copper arsenate (CCA)-treated wood is a potential concern because of children's hand-to-mouth activity.

Federal regulators Tuesday denied a request to ban arsenic-treated lumber used in playground equipment, which environmentalists say poses a health hazard. The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted ...