Bill Banning Sale of New Small Gas-Powered Engine Machines Introduced in Assembly

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Bill Banning Sale of New Small Gas-Powered Engine Machines Introduced in Assembly
Lawnmowers, leaf blowers would be phased out as early as 2024 under AB 1346
By Evan Symon
March 31, 2021

A new bill that would phase out the sale of new gas-powered small off-road engines (SORE) by 2024 was introduced in the Assembly Monday.

Assembly Bill 1346, authored by Assemblyman Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), would require the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to adopt cost-effective and technologically feasible regulations to prohibit engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small off-road engines. Specifically, the sale of new gas-powered small off-road engines, commonly found in gardening and outdoors equipment such as lawnmowers, leaf blowers, chainsaws, and other similar equipment would be transitioned over to only zero-emission motor equipment.

While gas-powered equipment would not be made illegal, the sale of new gas powered SORE would be phased out until 2024, or by a date that CARB finds acceptable. CARB would also have to make funding available for commercial rebates to support the transition to zero-emission SORE.

Berman and Gonzalez wrote AB 1346 for several reasons. The chief reason is reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), reactive organic gas (ROG), and other common emissions, with the bill equating one hour of using a commercial leaf blower emitting the same amount of emissions as driving 1,100 miles in a new car. The bill also notes that SORE emission standards have not been strictly regulated, and that the implementation of the bill would help meet the zero-emission goals of Governor Gavin Newsom’s executive order last year from ending the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in California by 2035.

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Poster's comment:
Are they gonna start checking all vehicles coming into the state for illegal lawnmowers stashed in the trunk?

[Wingnut]

These people must sit around at night dreaming up ways to try and make life miserable for the common working man.  They are truly mental  midgets,

[catfish1957]

Glad I kept some of these old weedeaters, blowers, etc. through the years.  They may be future gold, unless they start banning 2 cycle engine oil too.

I've got a 100 foot, a 300 foot , and a 400 foot driveway at the three places.  Hoisting these devices around with a power cord is going to be apain in the ass.

[PeteS in CA]

Time for @Cyber Liberty to open a lawn mower and yard equipment store there in BHC!