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Guilt-free mowing?
Posted on September 06, 2008
Maybe the folks at the Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District will be able to stop telling us to delay mowing our lawns during air quality alerts in the future, now that the EPA is promising cleaner burning lawn mowers.Look here and here for the announcement from the EPA and a story in USA Today.APCD says:Operating a typical (4 HP) gasoline-powered lawnmower for one hour produces as much smog-forming hydrocarbons as driving an average car almost 200 miles under average conditions (more than the distance from Louisville to Nashville). Gasoline-powered string trimmers are actually more...
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