Council tackles landscaping emissions with plan to reboot equipment trade-in program - Austin Monitor

People still clinging to battered old lawn equipment may soon see opportunity for an upgrade, as City Council looks to reboot a 'cash for clunkers' exchange program to incentivize eco-friendly landscaping.

Alongside greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides, gas-powered lawn equipment is especially pernicious in its emission of fine particulate matter, an EPA-regulated toxin known to cause respiratory illnesses.

The city of Dallas, which was poised to enact a full ban of gas-powered equipment last year, was driven back to the drawing board as Gov. Greg Abbott signed a state law preventing any city, county or school district from discriminating against products based on their fuel source.

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