This was because a landscaping crew with gas-powered leaf blowers was clearing a yard two houses down from my own. Unfortunately, this proved no solution: There were leaf blowers there, too, at the houses that line the edges of the forest. If your neighborhood is like mine, over the past couple of years, you’ve noticed that essentially if it is daylight, you’ll hear leaf blowers. There is a reason, after all, that otherwise disparate municipalities across the state, such as Montgomery County and Baltimore City, have banned these noise and air pollution machines. Opposition to gas leaf blower bans invariably comes in the form of advocacy for small landscaping businesses.

Source: Daily Sun December 19, 2025 20:51 UTC