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Read about District of Columbia and other cities
Supporting Leaf Blower Regulation in DC: D.C. City Council 2018
DC enacts phase-out of gas-powered leaf blowers: The Atlantic 2019
Cities acting to limit loud and polluting lawn care: Audubon Magazine 2021
Read about noise
Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague: Southern Medical Journal 2007
Lawn and garden equipment: Noise Free America
Leaf blower facts: Citizens for a quieter Sacramento
Leaf blowers singled out as noisiest landscaping tool: Total Landscape Care 2017
What is a safe noise level for the public: American Journal of Public Health 2017
Noise-induced hearing loss among adults: Morb Mortal Wkly 2017
Ambient Noise Is “The New Secondhand Smoke:” Acoustics Today 2019
Noise can adversely affect human health and quality of life: The Hill 2019
Read about noise health risks
Noise pollution: non-auditory effects on health: British Medical Bulletin 2003
Secondhand Noise and Stress: SagePub / NIH 2009
Environmental noise pollution in the United States: Environ Health Perspect. / NIH 2014
The public health menace of fall in America: Video from The Atlantic
The insidious health risk you need to know about: Huffington Post 2017
Environmental Noise / the Cardiovascular System: J Amer College of Cardiology 2018
Leaf blower dangers: Quiet Clean PDX
Lawn equipment sound: A community study: J Environ Toxicol Stud. 2017 / NIH 2019
How Noise Pollution Might Cause Increased Stress Levels: Very Well Mind 2020
Read about children
Air pollution/exacerbation asthma in African-Amer children in LA. Epidemiology 2001
Air pollution / lung function in S.CA children: Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002
Particulate Air Pollution and Infant Death: Enviro Health Perspectives / NIH 2004
The effects of air pollution on the health of children: Paediatr Child Health 2006
Is Your Noisy Neighborhood Slowly Killing You? Mother Jones 2017
Read about what the WHO, the EPA, and ASHA say
EPA Identifies noise levels affecting health and welfare: EPA 1974
Guidelines for Community Noise: World Health Org 1999
Loud noise dangers: American Speech, Language, Hearing Association
Read about pollution and 2-stroke engine
Leaf Blower’s Emissions Dirtier than High-Performance Pick-Up Truck’s: Edmunds’ InsideLine.com 2011
Emissions Test: Car vs. truck vs. leaf blower: Edmunds 2011
National Emissions from Lawn and Garden Equipment: EPA 2015 paper
That ear-splitting leaf blower? It also emits more pollution than a car: Wall Street Journal 2017
Small engines in California: California Air Resources Board 2017
California weighs tougher emissions rules for gas-powered garden equipment: NPR 2017
The robots are coming to mow your lawn: New York Times 2021
Read about economic ramifications
Read about effects on wildlife
Avian vocal production in noise: Animal Communication and Noise 2014
How noise pollution from humans is wreaking havoc on U.S. wildlife: PBS 2017
Effects of noise on wildlife: National Park Service 2018
Noise Pollution Impacts a Wide Range of Species, Study Finds: Smithsonian Mag 2019
Noise Pollution Hurts Wildlife, But States Have Trouble Turning Down the Volume: PEW Stateline 2019
Leaf blowers fatal to declining insects, Germans warned. BBC News, November 19, 2019
Read about environmental justice
Too loud! For too long! Centers for Disease Control 2017
Noisy, but that’s not all: Fair Warning 2017
Operator Exposure to Emissions from Lawn and Garden Equipment: California Air Resources Board 2018
Meet the low wage workforce: Brookings 2019
Personal protective equipment: National Association of Landscape Professionals
Read about alternatives to gas-powered leaf blowers
