Lawn equipment spews ‘shocking’ amount of air pollution, new data shows

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Lawn-care equipment—leaf-blowers, lawnmowers, and the like—doesn’t top most people’s lists of climate priorities. But a new report documents how, in aggregate, lawn care is a major source of U.S. air pollution. 

Using the latest available data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2020 National Emissions Inventory, the report found that the equipment released more than 68,000 tons of smog-forming nitrous oxides, which is roughly on par with the pollution from 30…