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Air Pollution and Health Articles
- Resolution on Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers passed by the Massachusetts Medical Society - April 2017
- Stop Raking Your Leaves!: The Washington Post
- World Health Organization: Air Pollution and Cancer Study
- Leaf Blowers and Air Pollution: Impact on Children (Children's Environmental Health Center): Mt Sinai Hospital, 2010
- Air Pollution and Heart Disease: American Heart Association Scientific Statement, 2010
- 10 Tips to Protect from Unhealthy Air: American Lung Association
- Air Pollutant Health Effects: US EPA 2008
- Air Pollution and Cancer Report: World Health Organization, IARC 2013 Press Release
- Air Pollution and Heart Disease: American Heart Association Scientific Statement, 2004
- Air Pollution, Climate and Heart Disease: Circulation 2013
- Assessment of Health Effects of Particulate Matter: US EPA 2012
- Asthma and Outdoor Air Pollution: US EPA
- Children and Risk from Air Pollution: Natural Resource Defense Council, 2004
- Facts - Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease: American Heart Association
- Health Effects of Lawn Equipment: US EPA, 2011
- Heart disease, Stroke and Outdoor Air Pollution: US EPA / American College Cardiology / American Heart Association
- Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter: US EPA, 2009
- Integrated Science Assessment - Ozone: US EPA, 2013
- Ozone and Your Health: US EPA
- Particle Pollution and Your Health: US EPA
- Sick of Soot: American Lung Association, 2011
- State of the Air Report 2013: American Lung Association
Noise Pollution and Health Articles
- Leaf Blowers and Noise Impact on Children (Letter from the Children's Environmental Health Center): Mt Sinai Hospital, 2010
- Noise: American Speech/Language/Hearing Associations, 2011
- Noise Pollution and Childcare: Children's Environmental Health Network, 2009
- Environmental Noise Pollution and Public Health in the United States, Environmental Health Perspectives, 2014
- Noise/Induced Hearing Loss: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 2008
- Noise Pollution Overview: US EPA, 2012
- Noise and Its effects on Children: US EPA, 2009
- Children and Noise (Training Manual): World Health Organization
- Burden of Disease from Environmental Noise: World Health Organization, 2011
- Children's Health and Environmental Noise: World Health Organization, 2004
- Community Noise Guidelines: World Health Organization, 1999
Emissions and Health Articles
- British Medical Journal: Short Term exposure to air pollution and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis - February 2015
- British Medical Journal: The relation between past exposure to fine particulate air pollution and prevalent anxiety: observational cohort study - March 2015
- Edmunds.com Emissions Comparison Tests - 2011
- Leaf Blower Emissions are Dirtier than Trucks - 2011
- California EPA 2000 Leaf Blowers and Health Report
- Emissions Inventory for Texas Region July 2013
- Hazardous Air Pollutants from Lawn and Other Equipment, US EPA/ERG - 2002
- Particulate Emissions from Leaf Blowers, San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District - 2006
- Emissions from Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers in the Chicago-Metro Area, - 2008
- Leaf Blower and Lawn Equipment Emissions US EPA, - 2011
- Lawn Equipment Contribution to Non-Road Emissions, US EPA - 2012
- Carbon Emissions from 2-Stroke Engines - 2008
- Emissions from new and older 2-Stroke Engines - 2007