I hope the ban includes rotenone, nicotine sulfate, veratrine, azadirachtin, salannin, and pyrethrin. They might be natural, but that doesn't mean they are good for you, your garden, beneficial insects, or innocent bystanders (not beneficial, but not really harmful).

We need consistent standards for identifying hazardous chemicals.

It is ridiculous that golf courses are excluded. I understand the exclusion of farms and forests, but drenching our world with chemicals so folks can whack a tiny ball around with a titanium stick? Absurd!!!!

Pesticides made from petrochemicals should be completely banned.  While Wiscidea is obviously correct that allowing pesticide use in order to merely play a game is absurd considering the harm the pesticides cause, there's no excuse for poisoning our planet for any reason.  Humans have unfortunately created an artificial society that depends on massive ecological destruction, so that chemical agriculture has become the normal way to grow food and trees, and so that killing trees has become a normal way to live.

Re pesticides derived from petrochemicals as opposed to those derived from plants:

First, none of them are natural.  They are all artificially synthesized by humans.

Second, and more importantly, while some plant-based pesticides are toxic, ALL petrochemical-based ones are.  Because no artificially synthesized chemicals are natural, they all have some effect on the environment.  But the ones derived from petrochemicals are almost universally worse.

for this pesticide ban and the banning of bisphenol A containing products yesterday.  I hope the US gets on this bandwagon.