- California Governor Gavin Newsom signed off on the new law on Saturday banning gas-powered equipment that uses small off-road engines
- Gas-powered equipment includes generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers, chainsaws, weed trimmers and even golf carts
- Under the new law the machinery will have to be battery-powered or plug-in
- Author of the law Democratic Assemblyman Marc Berman said that it’s ‘a pretty modest approach to trying to limit the massive amounts of pollution’
- The state budget for the effort was approved at $30million but a representative of the landscaping industry said the funds are ‘woefully inadequate’
- Nearly 50,000 small businesses that will be affected by the new law
- Newsom ordered the California Air Resources Board to apply the new rule by 2024, or as soon as regulators determine is ‘feasible,’ whichever is later
California will soon ban the sale of new gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers after Governor Gavin Newsom signed off on the new law on Saturday.
The move is aimed at curbing emissions from a category of small engines on pace to produce more pollution each year than passenger vehicles.
The gas-powered equipment to be banned uses small off-road engines, a broad category that includes generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers, chainsaws, weed trimmers and even golf carts.
Under the new law these machines must be zero-emissions, meaning they’ll have to be battery-powered or plug-in.
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