Of all the world’s intolerable noises, none can match the shriek of a gas-powered leaf blower — the unholy contraption that interrupts autumn with its daylong caterwaul. Even from two blocks away, ...

GREENWICH — After years of failed attempts, Greenwich has finally enacted new restrictions on the use of gas-powered leaf blowers, at least for part of the year. The Representative Town Meeting voted ...

The challenge before Johns Hopkins University engineering students: Take a leaf blower, but make it quiet. Make it work as powerfully as ever, but do not allow it to emit the ear-piercing caterwaul ...

Gas leaf blowers are the latest bogeyman of the complaining class (“Time to put an end to the gas leaf blower terror,” Dec. 19). No doubts here that those complaints are valid. The solution is, I do ...