A new Florida law prevents cities from banning gas-powered leaf blowers, despite health and environmental concerns.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of all the world’s intolerable noises, none can match the shriek of a gas-powered leaf blower — the unholy contraption that ...
Gas-powered leaf blowers harm New Jersey residents in three different ways. As a husband and father, I would like our state to protect us, and particularly our children, from all three forms of harm.
As we head into leaf-blowing season, I am writing to urge the city of Northampton and Smith College to end their use of gas-powered leaf blowers, or, at a minimum, replace them with electric ones. As ...
It is summertime again and your neighborhood is probably full, like mine, of the sound and smell of leaf blowers clearing away grass clippings and the hiss of string trimmers. Most of these appliances ...
New Jersey is seeing towns ban gas-powered leaf blowers and regulate loud music from vehicles, sparking discussions among residents about the balance between community rules and personal freedoms.
No matter how loud gas-powered leaf blowers get, a bill in the Georgia General Assembly would prevent local restrictions or bans that target them. Legislation considered in a subcommittee Tuesday ...
No, not Moby Dick — whose soothing whale sounds are the stuff of New Age CDs. We're talking about that scourge of the suburbs, that bane of tranquility, the nightmare noise that householders dread ...
Of all the world’s intolerable noises, none can match the shriek of a gas-powered leaf blower — the unholy contraption that interrupts autumn with its daylong caterwaul. Even from two blocks away, ...