With spring and lawn care season right around the corner, New Yorkers aren’t only preparing for warmer weather and enjoying the great outdoors but also preparing for the irritating ramp up of loud, dirty gas-powered lawn equipment.

That’s because it doesn’t matter if you live on Long Island or Buffalo, we've all had the jarring experience of having a peaceful day interrupted by an obnoxiously loud gas-powered leaf blower or other lawn equipment that’s spewing fumes from its engine.

These machines are not only staggeringly loud, but they also produce a shocking amount of air pollution.

Nationwide, New York State ranks third in the nation for fine particulate pollution and fourth for global warming pollution from dirty gas-powered lawn equipment. New York’s Westchester and Monroe counties both ranked among the worst 100 counties in the nation when it came to pollution from gas-powered lawn equipment.

Pollution from gas-powered lawn equipment contributes to ground-level ozone and fine particulate........

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