The same reason persistent aerosolized trails are being laid-down in the sky every day - and have been since the late 1990s. What are we going to do about that?
Trump administration has been rapidly adding allowable pesticides;
Fluorinated herbicides (PFAS);
Diflufenican - Herbicide - Registered 2026
Epyrifenacil - Herbicide - Registered 2026
Trifludimoxazin - Herbicide - Proposed in 2025; registered 2026 for use on food crops, turf
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Glufosinate-P (approved 2025): New active ingredient for use in glufosinate-tolerant and conventional corn, soybean, cotton, canola, and other crops
Dicamba: Not a new active ingredient, but 2026 EPA reapproved dicamba products with loosened restrictions after previous registrations were vacated by federal courts.
Insecticides;
Isocycloseram (approved late 2025): New insecticide for crops such as cotton, potatoes, Brassica vegetables, citrus, and for structural pests including termites, cockroaches, bed bugs
Fungicides / Nematicides
Cyclobutrifluram (approved late 2025): A new fungicide/nematicide for turf, ornamentals, romaine lettuce, cotton, and soybean seed.
Florylpicoxamid (approved in 2025): A broad-spectrum fungicide for turf, food crops and golf courses
We get HOA letters to treat our yard. It’s all green. Just different grasses. If we ignore it they can fine us. This needs to stop. They need to get rid of HOAs.
I'm writing from Montgomery County, MD, cited in the article as having banned "cosmetic lawn pesticides" (my thanks to the author for having explained exactly what the ban consists of). The result of the ban is that if you veer off Interstate 270 to the office parks in Gaithersburg, the ambient atmosphere no longer smells like the inside of a fertilizer factory. So there's been progress with the big guys. However, these pesticides and herbicides are still sold to homeowners; our local hardware store smells like . . . the inside of a fertilizer factory. Because my immediate neighborhood can be compared to Marin County, Westchester or Martha's Vineyard, politically, it's full of people who vote to ban every chemical invented since distillation was discovered. But that doesn't stop many from working towards their English country garden dreams surreptitiously. A few do it themselves with the help of the local hardware store (legal but hypocritical). Others hire rogue landscapers who sneak around in unmarked trucks with containers of unmarked chemicals (I saw you going along Thornapple Street, buddy). And believe it or not, some eliminate the clover, quackgrass and plantain by periodically ripping up the whole lawn and putting in sod from New Jersey - kind of like America exporting heavy industry to China to avoid the local ecological degradation. We need someone these people admire (Bernie Sanders? Oprah Winfrey?) to make ads extolling the beauty of dandelions and crabgrass, before they find new ammunition in their lawncare war and South Jersey ends up looking like North Jersey.
MoCo hasn't had any herbicide or pesticide referenda. I can't recall it being part of any local candidate's messaging.
You voted for the guy whose admin. just approved a bunch of new pesticides (in my other comment), and actively works against most of your claimed interests. But congratulations, because "DEI" and "girls sports," or something.
Huh? Why are you referring to referenda and candidates when I (and the writer of the article) are talking about existing law, how do you know who I voted for and what "most of [my] claimed interests" are, and what do DEI and "girls sports" have to do with anything?
The same reason persistent aerosolized trails are being laid-down in the sky every day - and have been since the late 1990s. What are we going to do about that?
Fight back!
https://www.zazzle.com/poisoning_them_is_poisoning_me_message_sign-256108264986171740
Trump administration has been rapidly adding allowable pesticides;
Fluorinated herbicides (PFAS);
Diflufenican - Herbicide - Registered 2026
Epyrifenacil - Herbicide - Registered 2026
Trifludimoxazin - Herbicide - Proposed in 2025; registered 2026 for use on food crops, turf
-------------------------------------------------
Glufosinate-P (approved 2025): New active ingredient for use in glufosinate-tolerant and conventional corn, soybean, cotton, canola, and other crops
Dicamba: Not a new active ingredient, but 2026 EPA reapproved dicamba products with loosened restrictions after previous registrations were vacated by federal courts.
Insecticides;
Isocycloseram (approved late 2025): New insecticide for crops such as cotton, potatoes, Brassica vegetables, citrus, and for structural pests including termites, cockroaches, bed bugs
Fungicides / Nematicides
Cyclobutrifluram (approved late 2025): A new fungicide/nematicide for turf, ornamentals, romaine lettuce, cotton, and soybean seed.
Florylpicoxamid (approved in 2025): A broad-spectrum fungicide for turf, food crops and golf courses
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How many new restrictions? Zero.
We get HOA letters to treat our yard. It’s all green. Just different grasses. If we ignore it they can fine us. This needs to stop. They need to get rid of HOAs.
Those letters cannot compel you to "treat" your yard. What state, and what wording?
The neighbor across the street had a Lein on her house for ignoring. GA
But what specifically is mandated by the HOA?
Courtesy Notice. Please treat your lawn
Weird. Not "keep your lawn free of weeds and crabgrass," or something?
Spray it with vinegar in water and pull the weeds = treated.
reply by a certain date
I'm writing from Montgomery County, MD, cited in the article as having banned "cosmetic lawn pesticides" (my thanks to the author for having explained exactly what the ban consists of). The result of the ban is that if you veer off Interstate 270 to the office parks in Gaithersburg, the ambient atmosphere no longer smells like the inside of a fertilizer factory. So there's been progress with the big guys. However, these pesticides and herbicides are still sold to homeowners; our local hardware store smells like . . . the inside of a fertilizer factory. Because my immediate neighborhood can be compared to Marin County, Westchester or Martha's Vineyard, politically, it's full of people who vote to ban every chemical invented since distillation was discovered. But that doesn't stop many from working towards their English country garden dreams surreptitiously. A few do it themselves with the help of the local hardware store (legal but hypocritical). Others hire rogue landscapers who sneak around in unmarked trucks with containers of unmarked chemicals (I saw you going along Thornapple Street, buddy). And believe it or not, some eliminate the clover, quackgrass and plantain by periodically ripping up the whole lawn and putting in sod from New Jersey - kind of like America exporting heavy industry to China to avoid the local ecological degradation. We need someone these people admire (Bernie Sanders? Oprah Winfrey?) to make ads extolling the beauty of dandelions and crabgrass, before they find new ammunition in their lawncare war and South Jersey ends up looking like North Jersey.
MoCo hasn't had any herbicide or pesticide referenda. I can't recall it being part of any local candidate's messaging.
You voted for the guy whose admin. just approved a bunch of new pesticides (in my other comment), and actively works against most of your claimed interests. But congratulations, because "DEI" and "girls sports," or something.
Huh? Why are you referring to referenda and candidates when I (and the writer of the article) are talking about existing law, how do you know who I voted for and what "most of [my] claimed interests" are, and what do DEI and "girls sports" have to do with anything?
The most damaging practice to health on Earth. Nothing justifies these sprays.
Fight back!
https://www.zazzle.com/pesticide_warning_flag_sign-256336590022213816
Fight back!
https://www.zazzle.com/don_t_spray_where_they_play_yard_sign-256056098228434493