A growing number of cities across the US are enacting regulations that end or limit the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in an effort to address the noise and air pollution generated by the machinery. But the $188 billion US landscaping industry is pushing back.
In a new perspective, contributor Jessica Stolzberg walks through what she learned from efforts to get gas-powered blowers banned in her town of Montclair, New Jersey. What matters, she writes, is showing up in person to make the case to elected leaders “again and again and again.” Today on CityLab: What It Takes to Defeat the Leaf Blowers
— Linda Poon