The push to ban gas-powered leaf blowers has gained an unlikely figurehead: Cate Blanchett, the Australian actress. “Leaf blowers need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth,” she said in an ...

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The San Mateo City Council supports a ban on gas leaf blowers, following the footsteps of several Peninsula cities, including Menlo Park and Burlingame. While San Mateo’s current policy allows older ...

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Fall is here, which means leaves are falling. But when it comes to cleaning up the leaves and clearing them away, more cities and states are banning gas-powered leaf blowers as the tool of choice.

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Montgomery County leaders are considering a significant change to the enforcement of the county's new gas-powered leaf blower ban, citing fears that the current policy could unfairly ...

Noisy gas-powered leaf blowers will become a thing of the past in Switzerland's Zurich, after more than 61% of citizens voted in favor of banning them in a referendum. Residents of Zurich decided ...

San Mateo may soon ban gas leaf blowers, following the footsteps of several Peninsula cities, including Menlo Park and Burlingame. State law currently requires small off-road equipment, such as leaf ...

STAMFORD — City officials are considering prohibiting the use of gas-powered leaf blowers for most of the year, including replacing its own gasoline-powered landscaping equipment with electric ...

Keith Bowman, with McHale Landscape Design, has spent decades in the landscaping business. But, he confessed, when it comes to gas-powered leaf blowers, “I hate the sound of a gas blower, I hate it.” ...

SANTA CRUZ — To reduce air and noise pollution in the city of Santa Cruz, an ordinance prohibiting the use of gas-powered landscaping implements takes effect this week, just more than a year after the ...