"The dirtiest internal combustion engines on the planet, give or take a cylinder, belong to lawn mowers. Yes, lawnmowers. Gallon for gallon they spew out 93 times the smog-forming emissions of cars. Two percent of the aggregate smog-forming pollution that hovers over California much of the year, for example, is attributable to mowers.
Regulators say there's a fix for this - $25 catalytic converters that would cut daily emissions in California alone by 22 tons, as much as 800,000 cars would produce. But can we make manufacturers install them? No. Efforts to do so have been blocked by powerful senators with lawn mower factories in their states."
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