Sharon Machlis on Nostr: #Climate threat not often discussed: “Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, ...
#Climate threat not often discussed:
“Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly the dirtiest and most polluting kind of machinery still in legal use.
“According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the two-stroke leaf blowers and similar equipment in the state produce more ozone pollution than all of California’s tens of millions of cars, combined.”
- James Fallows
https://fallows.substack.com/p/gas-powered-leaf-blowers-the-end
“Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly the dirtiest and most polluting kind of machinery still in legal use.
“According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the two-stroke leaf blowers and similar equipment in the state produce more ozone pollution than all of California’s tens of millions of cars, combined.”
- James Fallows
https://fallows.substack.com/p/gas-powered-leaf-blowers-the-end