Apr 3, 2019 The Town of Lincoln, MA, home to Henry Thoreau’s Walden Pond (along with Concord, MA) and the Massachusetts Audubon Society, …

Apr 1, 2019 Transitioning an industry to clean, quiet land maintenance practices is a multi-faceted effort. It requires making the health…

By Luke Massman-Johnson Aug 14, 2018 On August 2nd, the city of Ojai, CA celebrated the rollout of a brand new fleet of commercial-grade …

DC Testimony is a Community Resource Aug 3, 2018 Citizen group, Quiet Clean DC, has created a resource for communities looking to restrict the use of gas leaf blowers. The organized effort undertaken to enact legislation is summarized in this article in The Atlantic,...

For landscape workers, occupational noise is a daily hazard. According to the National Association of Landscaping Professionals, most of the gas equipment land care professionals use exceed the 85 decibel occupational safety threshold established by the Occupational...

We called this post "Bluebird in the Coal Mine" to reflect the critical importance of a new landmark study by Kleist and co-workers on the biochemical, behavioral and physical impacts of environmental noise on bluebirds. If you're familiar with the expression, "canary...

In her "Numbers" column in last month's Wall Street Journal, writer Jo Craven McGinty provides a concise set of facts on pollution generated by gas-powered leaf blowers (That Ear-Splitting Leaf Blower? It Also Emits More Pollution than a Car, Dec 15, 2017; Page A2)....

Children are making the case for a cleaner (and quieter) world. QC's Legal Advisory Co-Chair, Rick Reibstein, wrote this wonderful article -- Can Our Children Trust Us with Their Future? -- for the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers group on the Juliana Case --...

The broad impact of gas leaf blower noise on communities may be explained by a strong low frequency component, according to a recently published pilot study co-authored by Erica Walker, a recent graduate of the doctoral program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of...