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      <image:caption>The Hague, minus leaf blowers (Vincent van Zeijst, Wikimedia Commons)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2019-03-26</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.quietcleandc.com/qcdc-in-the-news/2019/3/22/easthampton-ny-considering-seasonal-ban-on-gas-powered-blowers</loc>
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      <image:caption>From “Get Off My Lawn,” in the April, 2019 issue of The Atlantic.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Quiet Clean D.C. (QCDC) In The News - And Yet Another Community Makes the Switch: Palm Springs</image:title>
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      <image:title>Quiet Clean D.C. (QCDC) In The News - And Another Community Makes the Switch: Rancho Palos Verdes</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Above, a screenshot from the story in the Almanac in Portola Valley, California.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Above: From Mike Lofgren’s piece in The Washington Monthly.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Signature page from the new Act.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Screen shot of the beginning of the District’s newly enacted Leaf Blower Regulation Act, above.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2018-12-29</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>From the D.C. City Council’s legislative-status site.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From ConservationBlog, the Audubon Naturalist Society newsletter.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Headline from story by Rachel Kurzius in DCist.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One of Dorothea Lange’s famed pictures of Dust Bowl Oklahoma. This is absence of topsoil, at its extreme. (Library of Congress)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2018-11-25</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Crew members from A.I.R. in Washington D.C. using modern, no-emissions, much quieter battery-powered lawn equipment. (QCDC photo.)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2018-11-21</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Editorial column from the Boston Globe, November 19, 2018.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The power-equipment lobby, announcing that it has hired a battery-equipment specialist.</image:caption>
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  <url>
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    <lastmod>2018-10-24</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>"Leaf blower bans have been spreading across the country." From The Beach Reporter.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From the Elkhart Truth this month.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From Lawn and Landscape, a crew from Sun Power Lawn Care in Florida runs a successful business with battery-powered equipment.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2018-07-23</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Wall Street Journal headline, March 17, 2018.</image:caption>
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