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  What It Takes to Defeat the Leaf Blowers To end the use of gas-powered blowers, advocates in one New Jersey town focused on public health and made their case directly to local elected leaders.  Local tensions over gas-powered leaf blowers are a rite of autumn in many US cities.  Photographer: valentina/iStockphoto via Getty Images By  Jessica Stolzberg November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM GMT+8 Save Translate Takeaways  by Bloomberg AI In February 2023, a father stood before the mayor and town councilors during public comment at a municipal meeting in Montclair, New Jersey. “What is the threshold of danger?” he asked into the microphone. He went on to explain how he’d recently stood on the sidewalk and measured the carbon monoxide levels in the air using a hand-held meter as a crew across the street from his home operated several gas-powered leaf blowers. The reading — 39 parts per million — was higher than the federal  ambient air quality standard , which i...
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  Skip to content Skip to site index Search & Section Navigation Account GIVE THE TIMES Share full article 0 Opinion Thomas L. Friedman On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice Nov. 18, 2025,  5:00 p.m. ET Credit... Pool photo by Nathan Howard Listen to this article · 10:16 min  Learn more Share full article 0 By  Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist I write today about an epidemic. It’s not biological. It’s an epidemic of cowardly, immoral and unprincipled decisions by leaders across the political spectrum. Our last biological epidemic — Covid 19 — was a tiny invisible pathogen that made us physically sick. This epidemic of moral cowardice is right in everybody’s face and it’s eating away at the civic bonds that hold societies together. Three examples preoccupy me personally: The Republican Party today has a neo-Nazi problem that it refuses to confront. The progressive left today has a pro-Hamas problem that it refuses to c...
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