With 44 co-sponsors in the New Jersey legislature hopes are high for the passage of the Childs Safe Playing Fields law: http://montclair.patch.com/articles/no-more-exposure-to-lawn-pesticides-for-children-at-school ...

A legislative committee in New Jersey has approved legislation that would allow the state to join New York and Connecticut with laws that would protect schoolchildren from pesticide exposures. If approved by the entire legislature, the law would ban products like Roundup and weed 'n feed from school grounds. Here's the story: http://njtoday.net/2011/12/15/bill-to-protect-school-children-from-pesticide-expos ...

Trying to follow in the footsteps of the states of Connecticut and New York, which have enacted legislation to eliminate pesticides from schoolgrounds, legislators in Maine are trying to pass LD 837, "An Act to Protect Children's Health and Promote Safe Schools and Day Care Centers by Limiting the Use of Pesticides." The bill did not gain committee support, but can still be brought to the open floor of the ...