Quiet Clean Port Jefferson

08/07/2026

Heat advisory, air quality advisory, middle of the summer, Village noise codes being violated, but the landscapers blow and blow and blow for no good reason. No one wins here, so senseless.

07/30/2026

The last two days Port Jefferson experienced torrential rain, flooded streets, and hazardous travel conditions. Village Hall issued alerts warning residents about flooded roads and advising them to avoid unnecessary travel whenever possible.

Yet even these conditions don't stop harmful, indiscriminate gas-powered leaf blower use.

None of it matters to the industry - indiscriminate, harmful gas-powered leaf blower use marches on unfettered. Torrential rain. Flooded streets. Heat advisories. Poor air quality. Weekends. Holidays. Middle of summer. Violating Village Code. Harm to their employees, visitors and residents. None of it makes a difference to them.

That's exactly why Port Jefferson needs common-sense seasonal regulations to stop the almost year-round, indiscriminate use of gas-powered leaf blowers.

07/25/2026

The issue isn't landscaping. It's the indiscriminate use of gas powered leaf blowers. Too often they are used by default, even when they add little value while creating significant noise, air pollution, and disruption. This kind of usage benefits no one, landscapers included. It's time for common sense regulations.

07/17/2026

One hour of operating a gas-powered leaf blower is the equivalent o...

07/16/2026

Will the county do anything to stop the completely unnecessary use of gas-powered leaf blowers adding dangerous toxins to the already dangerous air? They are still running all day, there is no rationale reason for their usage in the middle of the summer, let a lone on a dangerous air day like today.

The New York State DEC has issued an Air Quality Advisory for July 16. The air quality index is projected to be 195, which falls within the unhealthy category for all residents.

07/15/2026

Heat advisory, air quality alert, yet we have landscaping workers walking around blowing nothing, putting their health at risk, residents health at risk and adding to an already dangerous environment.

This is obscene, this benefits no one while doing so much harm. So many agencies, elected officials across the local area, the town, the county and the state, will someone please stand up, be a leader and stop this madness.

07/03/2026

☀️ Today there is an Air Quality Alert. Pollution levels are high.

🌡️ Heat advisories are in effect.

🥵 High temperatures are expected to reach 97°F.

Yet throughout our neighborhoods, industrial-sized gas-powered leaf blowers are adding to this pollution with archaic, unnecessary gas-powered leaf blowers.

No leaves. Just noise, exhaust, dust, and pollution.

Workers are being required to operate these machines for hours in dangerous, unhealthy conditions while breathing exhaust fumes, dust, and airborne particulate matter for no rational reason.

The community absorbs the noise, pollution, and health impacts, all while landscaping companies profit and the costs are shifted onto everyone else.

This is absolute insanity.

06/29/2026

Imagine an industry that fights hard to continue using a machine that destroys the quality of life in the communities they do business, harms the health of residents and their workers and harms the environment!
Archaic machines and 1980's landscaping practices have no place in 2026.

JUDGE REJECTS CHALLENGE TO MONTCLAIR’s LEAF BLOWER BAN~
A federal judge has ruled that the federal Clean Air Act does not preempt a Montclair, New Jersey municipal ordinance banning gasoline-powered leaf blowers.

The court dismissed a landscaper-led challenge, providing major legal backing for towns enforcing zero-emissions restrictions on landscaping equipment.

Legal experts consider this decision the first in the nation to successfully defend a gas leaf blower ban against a federal preemption claim, which sets a strong precedent for other municipalities nationwide.
-> https://www.law.com/njlawjournal/2026/06/22/judge-rejects-preemption-challenge-to-towns-leaf-blower-ban/

06/23/2026

Pouring rain this morning, two workers using gas-powered leaf blowers to push puddles of water around the street and move insignificant amounts of stuff from one location to another. This activity is completely unnecessary, serves no purpose, and is exactly the type of gas-powered leaf blower misuse that continues to destroy the quality of life here and in other communities.

This industry is out of control, won't do anything to reform and needs to be reigned in.