By By Hugh Davis
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06/09/2022 04:00 a.m. EST
This is part of a regular column series from the North Haven Clean Energy Task Force seeking to share everyday ways to improve energy efficiency and save money while helping the planet.Each of us can effect change through our daily decisions by supporting environment-friendly public policies, but also by what we do in our own backyards.Abundant evidence shows that gas-powered leaf blowers and mowers are major contributors to air pollution that worsens climate change.The several hundred million gas-powered lawn tools currently in use in the United States produce from 30 to nearly 300 times the emissions of cars because they operate far less efficiently and do not have the emissions-capturing technology that regulations have made standard in the auto industry. For example, the data show that…