Pesticide restrictions in Maine: 21 towns on the record, the pace easing
This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.
Already a Known topic with 6 events. Additional aliases merged in.Our definition of the class, 29 August 2026.
Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 55 dated municipal records flagged as pesticide restrictions in Maine, spanning 21 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.
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The story so far
The record starts in Falmouth, 1 January 2020. Since then 21 Maine towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Harpswell on 16 July 2026.
The last 90 days put 5 meetings on the record, down from 7 in the 90 days before. 1 more is already on posted agendas.
It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Conservation Commission, Town Council and Planning Board.
The shape of the movement
Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
Quarter
Meetings
Towns
Sep 2025 to Nov 2025
3
2
Dec 2025 to Feb 2026
17
10
Mar 2026 to May 2026
9
6
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)
5
3
a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 17 meetings.
The towns on the record21, earliest first
Every Maine town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Cape Elizabethearliest 2023-01-01 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-04-06 · the meeting packet Town Council Meeting 2026-04-06 — Town Council Meeting Packet 4-6-26
Old Townearliest 2024-01-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-01-01 · the minutes Minutes (07-15-2024)
State of MEearliest 2025-06-09 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-06-09 · the document LD1323: Resolve, Directing the Board of Pesticides Control to Evaluate the Impact of Neonicotinoids on Pollinators, Huma
Gorhamearliest 2025-07-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-07-01 · the agenda Town Council Meeting - July 1st, 2025 — Agenda
Yarmouthearliest 2025-08-13 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-08-13 · the document Planning Board — Solar Amendments Comments List 8-13-25
Augustaearliest 2025-11-04 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-04-02 · the document 04 02 2026 Business Meeting Agenda 1774956019
Rocklandearliest 2026-01-07 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-01-07 · the agenda Agenda center file 1/7/2026 Energy and Sustainability Advisory Committee Meeting
Companies on this record112 companies, 40 documents
Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
GPCOGCape Elizabeth, Falmouth
Falmouth Land TrustFalmouth
Maine Forest ServiceCape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Old Town
CCLTCumberland
CMCARockland
EnergyStarFalmouth
Friends of Casco BayCumberland
Land TrustFalmouth
LMACFalmouth
MOFGARockland
MSAD51Cumberland
NRCMRockland
OceanviewCumberland
UbiviewRockland
AARPKennebunk
Abigail’s InnCamden
Acorn Engineering, IncFalmouth
AE Hodsdon EngineersAugusta
Andrew Stuart, d/b/a Barren’s RestaurantCamden
Andrew Stuart, LLC, d/b/a Barren’s RestaurantCamden
Barren’s RestaurantCamden
BaykeeperCumberland
Bowdoin CollegeBrunswick
Bowdoin College’s Office of SustainabilityBrunswick
BrendaCumberland
Bruce Hill Rd projectCumberland
BTLTBrunswick
C'est La Vie Ventures LLC, dba Marquis Cocktail LoungePortland
Casco Bay Estuary PartnershipFalmouth
Casco Bay Estuary Partnership (CBEP)Brunswick
And 82 more companies.
The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.
A snapshot of a moving record
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Also at this scope: Pesticide restrictions across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.