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Antonio Espinoza, a supervisor with the Gras Lawn landscaping company, uses a gasoline-powered leaf blower to clean up around a housing development in Brick, N.J. on June 18, 2024. New Jersey is one ...

WALNUT CREEK — Many leaves on the 1,200 trees near Jeanette Asselin’s Countrywood home still haven’t dropped, but she’s already worried about how to pick them all up. The 72-year-old Asselin, who has ...

Leaf blowers aren’t just for leaves. There are plenty of jobs around the house, and beyond, that can be made easier using ...

WINTER PARK, Fla. — On Tuesday, Winter Park voters reversed a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers that went into effect in July 2024. The city had passed an ordinance in 2022 prohibiting the use of ...

When fall hits, the leaves feel endless — and cleaning them up even more so. Luckily, a well-reviewed Ryobi backpack blower ...

RANT to those who hire landscape maintenance firms that use gas blowers. They are a major source of noise pollution, destroying our peaceful mornings and causing stress. And they are a sham — most ...

Lower Merion Township is considering a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers. Residents are divided on the proposed seasonal bans and eventual phase-out by 2029. Enforcement would be complaint-based with ...

STIHL recalled about 47,800 of its BR 800 Magnum backpack blowers, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday, Nov. 6. The fan wheel inside the blower can break apart while in use, ...

Petrol blowers are outlawed in many parts of the US, with more than 200 regulations enacted across the country (though Texas passed a law preventing bans, to protect the oil industry). And in 2011, ...