herbicides

Herbicides, also commonly known as weed killers, are substances used to control undesired plants (weeds). Some herbicides, such as dicamba, work as plant growth regulators, causing abnormal cell division, which causes the weeds to die.
There has been a long history of ridiculous fearmongering by environmental activists masquerading as health experts.
I have been a long-time reader of Pacific Standard (once called Miller-McCune), a publication that tries to be the West Coast equivalent of The Atlantic.
There must be something in the water in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Atrazine, one of the most effective and commonly used herbicides (weed-killers) in t