The following report is by Fox 31 Denver:
The rule applies from June to August. During this time, state agencies will not be allowed to use gas-powered lawn equipment with engines of 25 horsepower or less.
The new regulation also prohibits the use of gas-powered push lawnmowers and other lawn equipment under 10 horsepower on other public property within the Denver metro and north Front Range ozone nonattainment area.
New Colorado bill aims to eliminate parking minimums statewide This area includes the Denver metro, as well as areas north through Larimer and Weld counties. This new rule is also in effect from June through August.
The nonprofit CoPIRG Foundation released a report that found gas-powered lawnmowers and other lawn equipment generated an estimated 671 tons of fine particulate pollution in 2020.
This was equivalent to the pollution created by more than 7 million cars, according to the report.
CoPIRG also said lawn equipment contributes an estimated 9,811 tons of ozone-forming volatile organic compounds, along with 1,969 tons of nitrogen oxides every year.
The regulation will not go into effect until 2025.
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California in 2021 also banned a number of gas-powered lawn and home maintenance equipment, including lawn mowers, leaf blowers, chain saws, and other suchlike tools. Mainstream media at one point, during the days of the Covid panic roughly a little over two years ago to date, also tried implying that gas-powered leaf blowers should be banned because it was spreading Covid variants around – wacko-dacko stuff for sure!
Though this move only affects the public sector in Colorado, it will still cost the government more money to retrofit and replace the equipment, and will of course take longer to get jobs done as equipment will need to be recharged often. Of course, it will still require more “dirty energy” to produce these electric replacements, but I’ll guess we’re not allowed to callout the obvious.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Ecclesiastes 10:8
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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and . . . the code police will go and fine residents for not keeping their yards ‘just so’
Tell these morons to shove it; We need a national fire up ya lawn equipment day.
Here go drag a 300ft cord around the park, while ya mow it, or 20 batteries to use to do it, WOW, now that’s progress. These climate wimps never mowed any lawn in their pathetic lives.
Why do ya think God gave us all of this oil to use?? DUH