Screenshot from WJLA report; photo by Jay Korff/7News

Jay Korff, of ABC7/WJLA-TV in Washington, has produced a concise but thorough report on the effort to ban gas-powered leaf blowers in the communities of Northern Virginia that are just across the Potomac River from Washington D.C.

The report features the efforts of Quiet Clean NOVA — NOVA being local shorthand for the Northern Virginia suburbs — and the responses of landscapers, neighbors, scientists, elected officials, and public health authorities. This is an example of local TV-news coverage giving serious attention to a local story, but also putting it in national and worldwide perspective.

You can watch the whole segment here, and read a transcript at the same site. Congratulations to Jay Korff, Quiet Clean NOVA members, and others involved in this effort and the News7 report.