Tag Archive | "Phosphorus Bans"

The Lawn Phosphorus Firestorm: The Flames Are Warming

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

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New Laws Wrongfully Restrict Organic Fertilizers The coming year is shaping up as a major battleground and your lawn may be caught in the crosshairs of a fight that stretches from Maine to Washington state. The issue is phosphorus, denoted by the letter P and the number 15 on the Periodic Table of Elements that hung in [...]

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Michigan Phosphorus Data: The Fertilizer Ban is Working

Monday, August 30, 2010

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Citing data that shows a 17 percent reduction in phosphorus runoff in a local river, a University of Michigan professor told SafeLawns.org that three years of studies indicate a ban on phosphorus in lawn fertilizers is working as intended. Bans of phosphorus in lawn fertilizer have become hugely controversial across the United States in the past [...]

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New York, New Jersey Elevate Lawn Phosphorus Debate

Thursday, August 5, 2010

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Compile all the managed lawn surface in New York and New Jersey and, conservatively speaking, you’d probably be talking about 15 percent of the total lawn care industry in the United States. That puts billions of dollars and high emotion into play when the two states’ legislatures start passing lawn laws. “Bills like the one in [...]

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Study: Phosphorus Bans Appear to be Working

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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No fewer than 11 states have enacted or are considering restrictions or outright bans on the application of lawn fertilizers containing phosphorus. We’ve blogged about the issue here several times, including this item about New Jersey from late July (Click keyword phosphorus in upper right-hand corner of this page to find other entries). While I still [...]

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