More states considering bans on gas-powered lawn equipment
After California became the first U.S. state to ban gas-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers earlier this year, more states, including New York and Illinois, are mulling over similar measures.
How quickly other states follow suit depends on the companies that make electric lawn care equipment, one expert told CBS News.
"I think the easier the manufacturers make it for other states to adopt the same sort of ban, the more states will do it," University of Southern California environmental law professor Robin Craig told CBS News correspondent Anthony Pura.
California and cities across the nation have been banning gas-powered leaf blowers and mowers because of the air pollution those devices emit. Brookline, Massachusetts, has a seasonal ban on gas-powered leaf blowers, as does Montclair, New Jersey, and Burlington, Vermont.
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