When you're trying to go through your community, got a handful of hands. These are heavily polluting, what are called single off road engine equipment. And The greenhouse gas emissions created by 1 hour of use of your average leaf blower is just as bad as driving a 2007 Toyota Corolla from Mountain View to Denver. I mean, they're heavily, heavily polluting when it comes to reactive organic gases. And another pollutant that I'm blanking on the name of, this is actually a bill four years ago. (24:19–24:34)
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