Time to prune gas-powered leaf blowers in Maryland

It used to be that the worst thing about gas-powered leaf blowers was the noise they made. Nothing quite says get out of bed early on a Saturday morning than the sound of 75 jet-engine-like decibels as the neighbor tries to gather his fall yard waste without benefit of a rake. But it turns out that the noise, while potentially harmful to the unprotected eardrum of the operator, is hardly the worst of your problems.