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Gas leaf blowers and lawn mowers are shockingly bad for the planet. Bans are beginning to spread

Regulators and clean-air advocates are increasingly eyeing the pollution emitted by small gasoline engines used to power lawn mowers and leaf blowers as they seek to blunt climate change.

Get off my lawn

Get off my lawn

How a small group of activists (our correspondent among them) got leaf blowers banned in the nation's capital.

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