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Colorado will limit use of gas-powered landscaping equipment on public property

State regulators shied away from a proposed sales ban on electric lawn equipment

Tim Lopez mows the lawn around Burns Garden in City Park on May 26, 2021, in Denver, Colorado. The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, adopted new rules that will prohibit the use of gas-powered push mowers and handheld landscaping tools such as weed trimmers and leaf blowers on all state-owned property. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Tim Lopez mows the lawn around Burns Garden in City Park on May 26, 2021, in Denver, Colorado. The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, adopted new rules that will prohibit the use of gas-powered push mowers and handheld landscaping tools such as weed trimmers and leaf blowers on all state-owned property. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Noelle Phillips of The Denver Post.
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Colorado air regulators will restrict the use of gas-powered lawn and garden equipment on public property, creating what is believed to be the first statewide policy in the nation designed to wean government agencies — and eventually professional landscapers and homeowners — from using the polluting machinery.
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