{"id":52783,"date":"2024-09-03T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-officials-want-rebate-for-electric-leaf-blowers\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:13:06","slug":"san-jose-officials-want-rebate-for-electric-leaf-blowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-officials-want-rebate-for-electric-leaf-blowers\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose officials want rebate for electric leaf blowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates and politicians have worked for years to ban the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in San Jose. A new incentive could be the answer. Although the state has banned the purchase of new gas leaf blowers as of this year, the city is pushing to get existing gas-operated leaf blowers out of circulation. The\u00a0program funded by San Jose Clean Energy would rebate commercial landscaping companies $500 for every electric leaf blower purchased to encourage users to switch out the equipment. In April, Mayor Matt Mahan and City Councilmembers David Cohen and Dev Davis proposed the $500 rebate plan.\u00a0 \u201cGas-powered&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-officials-want-rebate-for-electric-leaf-blowers\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates and politicians have worked for years to ban the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in San Jose. A new incentive could be the answer. Although the state has banned the purchase of new gas leaf blowers as of this year, the city is pushing to get existing gas-operated leaf blowers out of circulation. The\u00a0program &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}