{"id":40885,"date":"2025-11-21T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40885\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:37:07","slug":"lower-merion-township-moves-to-ban-gas-powered-leaf-blowers-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40885\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Merion Township moves to ban gas-powered leaf blowers \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Montgomery County, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowermerion.org\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/30951\/638987337946670000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lower Merion Township officials have introduced a new ordinance<\/a> that will phase out gas-powered leaf blowers, leading to a full ban by 2029.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Commissioners recently voted to limit gas-powered leaf blowers to certain seasons in 2026, 2027, and 2028, and then ban them completely starting in 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Township officials said the goal of the ban is to give the community a peaceful, cleaner environment.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance also seeks to ban the use of electric leaf blowers powered by a gas generator.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone caught using a gas-powered leaf blower after the ban is in place will first receive a warning. If it happens again, they could be fined up to $600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Montgomery County, Lower Merion Township officials have introduced a new ordinance that will phase out gas-powered leaf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186,200],"class_list":["post-40885","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40885","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=40885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}