Drector of the N.C. Cooperative Extension Center for New Hanover County A daytime walk through a suburban neighborhood can be quite the sensory experience: the melody of songbirds and the high-pitched ...

Now that leaf blowers are being stored for the season, snow blowers are getting cranked up. Though windows will be closed and most of us will be sheltering inside, the pollution caused by gas powered ...

Landscaping has become a major industry segment in the construction market. High-end homes and developments, upscale shopping centers, hotels, and resort areas all demand landscaping. In addition, ...

One of my most tedious landscaping tasks is removing those droopy palm tree branches. It takes climbing a ladder propped against a tree and using my smaller corded chain saw to reach up and hack away ...

According to an estimate drawn up by environmental advocates, gas-powered lawn equipment could be producing as much ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. — Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) is excited to announce the third ...

Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) is restarting the Landscape Equipment Electrification Fund (LEEF) program that will allocate $300,000 to businesses, public agencies, ...

Boulder is unlikely to see new regulations on gas-powered landscape equipment in the immediate future. The City Council took up a discussion on Thursday night about whether to pursue regulating ...

Monroe County leads all of upstate New York when it comes to air pollution caused by gas-powered lawn equipment, that’s ...

The event is co-hosted with Allan Hancock College, Central Coast Clean Cities Coalition (C5), Ventura County Air Pollution Control District, and Central Coast Community Energy (3CE). Users of off-road ...