50,000: Estimated cost, in $US, for a Washington, D.C., landscaping company to replace all its gas-powered leaf blowers
32: The number of sounds explored in director Sam Green’s new headphones-only documentary film (more below)
40,000: The fine, in $US, four companies have agreed to pay for “marketing their over-the-counter hearing aids as ‘FDA-approved’”
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¹Footnotes
Blowers: [washingtonian.com](https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/10/gas-leaf-blowers-are-banned-in-dc-hows-that-going/). Film: [variety.com](https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/32-sounds-review-sam-green-1235202063/). FDA: [nhregister.com](https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Connecticut-settles-with-four-makers-of-17001172.php).
*Originally published in the March 14, 2022, edition of the This Week in Sound email newsletter [tinyletter.com/disquiet](https://tinyletter.com/disquiet).*