Montgomery Community Media

Government and health experts helped members of the Montgomery County’s Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee weed through information about health concerns related to the use of some pesticides as they continue to discuss a proposed pesticide ban in Montgomery County. Committee members heard from top medical professionals as well as representatives from the Maryland […]

Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal met with reporters at his weekly briefing on March 9. Some of the issues he discussed included, the pesticide bill, the Ad Hoc Committee on Liquor Control, the impact of snow on the county’s budget, the achievement gap and more. You can watch the briefing in its entirety, below:

The proposal to limit the use of non-essential pesticides on lawns, certain athletic playing fields, and county-owned public grass areas continues to be a hot topic as about 350 people showed up for a public hearing on the legislation before the Montgomery County Council’s Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee Thursday night. According to Montgomery […]

The Montgomery County Council has set a public hearing at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 15  and Feb. 12. to discuss Bill 52-14 that could ban the use of certain pesticides on local lawns. “If passed, this would be a landmark ordinance, the first county law of its type in the U.S.,” said Alex Stavitsky-Zeineddin, a […]

A bill expected to be introduced Tuesday could have an impact on the way you take care of your lawn. Montgomery County Council Vice President George Leventhal, who chairs the Council’s Health and Human Services Committee,  is scheduled to introduce  Bill 52-14 on Tuesday  that seeks to prohibit use of certain pesticides on county lawns […]