A new proposal before the Virginia General Assembly would give local governments the power to ban or regulate gas-powered ...

People fed up with noise and pollution stemming from gas-powered leaf blowers may be able to find some relief soon — as legislation has been introduced in the General Assembly that would help regulate ...

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 ...

A newly introduced bill in the New York State Assembly aims to phase out the sale of gasoline-powered lawn equipment, ...

In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of residents in the affluent New York City suburb of Westfield, N.J., discovered that being home all day had an unexpected drawback: the constant ...

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. It’s leaf blower season, adding new layers of ...