Weekend mornings are a lot quieter this fall as more municipalities restrict or ban loud gas-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers. And for a truly purring mower, robot mowers can cut grass while you ...

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Grist reports on the challenges of banning gas-powered leaf blowers, despite rising support and health concerns, highlighted ...

ALTADENA, Calif. — With the Omicron variant of the coronavirus still circulating, six friends gathered last Saturday for an outdoor brunch on the patio of a house in Los Angeles County. But as the ...

CHARLTON TWP. — “It was like a release of a lot of pressure. And it was so loud ... that literally we thought maybe there was a jet plane flying right over our house because it was that loud,” Colleen ...

DUNWOODY, Ga. - Atlanta Gas Light cautioned people they may smell the odor of natural gas and hear noise near the site of a Sept. 12 explosion in Dunwoody, but not to be alarmed. The natural gas ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — What was that noise you heard, that 'tremor' you felt on Friday night? Officials say a relief valve in a natural gas line near the Saluda dam is to blame. The SC Office of Regulatory ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Broomfield served Extraction Oil & Gas Inc. with a citation late Friday claiming the Denver-based company violated the city and county’s noise ordinance the ...

For the average lawn, a fully charged electric walk-behind mower will finish the job, same as a gas one. That may come as a surprise to gas mower owners who’ve hesitated to switch based on fears that ...

Birds exposed to constant noise from oil and gas operations show physiological signs of chronic stress, have chicks whose growth is stunted, and -- in some cases -- lay fewer eggs that hatch, ...