Ling Tan

Safe Grow Montgomery
Gaithersburg, MD

Ling Tan is a founding member of Safe Grow Montgomery, an all-volunteer coalition that advocates for protecting the health of communities through reducing pesticide exposure where residents live, work and play. Safe Grow Montgomery championed the Healthy Lawns Act in Montgomery County, Maryland, the first US county to pass legislation that stopped the use of harmful lawn pesticides on public and private properties. She also leads the pesticide issue at Sierra Club Maryland Chapter and has worked on state-wide legislations such as banning the use of chlorpyrifos insecticide, a neurotoxic insecticide, and stopping the retail sale of neonicotinoid insecticides, linked to harm in bees.