Protect your family from toxic dust

The greatest problem with leaf blowers is not noise but dust, laden with allergens, carcinogens, and toxins spread high and far by the blowers' powerful engines.

1. Hurricane-force winds from leaf blowers.
2. Keep off the grass: hazards from just two of the many common pesticides
3. High lead levels are common in Arlington soil.
4. Blood lead in children.
5. Pollen, mold, feces, and lung-lodging particulates.
6. Conclusions.

These blog posts are substantially based on Jeremy Marin's presentation to Town Meeting earlier this year.

You can read them singly at the links above, or see them all together in order on a single page.