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Lawn Care Goes Electric: Environment America Makes the Case for Moving from Gas to Electric Leaf Blowers
November 5, 2023
Since the 1970s, gas-powered leaf blowers have become ubiquitous across the United States, with the roar of their fossil-fuel-burning engines adding cacophony to rural, suburban, and urban communities alike. But the noise pollution they add pales in comparison to the smog-forming pollution they produce, with just one hour of operation of one of these devices adding the equivalent to that of a passenger car driving 1,100 miles.