What is the Government doing to protect people from the risks of lawn care chemicals?
Very little. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) evaluates products on the basis of “risk-reward,” in which the potential health risks of a product are balanced against its potential economic value to the manufacturer or society as a whole. The EPA, by its own admission, states that approval of a lawn care product in no way guarantees product safety. Some local governments are taking matters into their own hands, passing state or local ordinances that ban applications of synthetic lawn chemicals though the federal government has not yet taken any such steps.
