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