{"id":208298,"date":"2026-06-02T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208298\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:39:10","slug":"seasonal-gas-powered-leaf-blower-ban-goes-into-effect-in-lower-merion-township-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208298\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect in Lower Merion Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A seasonal ban on gas-powered leaf blowers went into effect Monday, June 1st, in <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/place\/lower-merion-township\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Lower Merion Township.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Lower Merion Township.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Lower Merion Township.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Under the township&#8217;s new regulations, using the equipment is prohibited through October 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/videoClip\/18908574\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Climate Ready: Lower Merion&#039;s push for greener, quieter lawn care;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Climate Ready&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Climate Ready: Lower Merion&#8217;s push for greener, quieter lawn care<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The measure addresses not only air pollution but noise pollution as well &#8211; and it has not come without controversy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This marks the first phase of the full ban, which doesn&#8217;t go into effect until 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The next phase goes into effect in 2027, when gas-powered leaf blowers will be prohibited from January 1 to April 1, and once again from June 1 to October 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Radnor Township is also weighing a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A seasonal ban on gas-powered leaf blowers went into effect Monday, June 1st, in Lower Merion Township. Under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[24176,183,185,184,186,91555,40495],"class_list":["post-208298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-leaf-blowers","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-noise-pollution","tag-radnor-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}