THE FACTS

Health effects of 36 lawn pesticides show that: 14 are probable or possible carcinogens, 15 are linked with birth defects, 21 with reproductive effects, 24 with neurotoxicity, 22 with liver or kidney damage, and 34 are sensitizers and/or irritants.

A child in a household using home and garden pesticides is 6.5 times more likely to develop leukemia than in a home that does not.

Fertilizers run off lawns and end up in streams, rivers and eventually bodies of water affecting aquatic plants and animals.

Pesticide runoff contributes pollutants that contaminate drinking water supplies and are toxic to both humans and aquatic organisms.