Gas-powered leaf blowers will soon be no more in one township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Lower Merion Township commissioners voted to pass an ordinance banning the devices during a meeting Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The ordinance prohibits the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in the township.<\/p>\n
Under the new ordinance, the blowers would slowly be phased out from 2026 to 2028. In 2029, they would be completely banned in the township.<\/p>\n
Violators would get a warning before they face fines that start at $100. Fines rise to $250 for a second violation within a year and $600 for a third.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Members of the public spoke both for and against the policy during the meeting. Some community members were concerned about the ability and safety of battery-powered leaf blowers and dealing with leaves in the fall if the ordinance were passed. Those in favor of restrictions on the tools cited noise, health and environmental concerns.<\/p>\n
The proposed policy mentions air pollution, noise pollution, climate change caused by emissions and quality of life as reasons for the ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas-powered leaf blowers will soon be no more in one township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Lower Merion Township…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186,200,28],"class_list":["post-39739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-montgomery-county","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39739","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=39739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}