SD-SEQUEL’s letter outlines the group’s main objections to the use of gas-powered leaf blowers.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the La Jolla Light. However, SD-SEQUEL’s letter states the group “believes it is inequitable for landscape contractors alone to bear the costs of conversion to electric equipment.” Gavin Newsom in October, which will outlaw the sale of new gas-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers and chain saws as early as 2024 and requires CARB to adopt cost-effective and technologically feasible regulations to prohibit emissions from the machines. The letter applauds Assembly Bill 1346, signed into law by Gov. It has submitted a letter to the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District urging APCD to seek funds from the California Air Resources Board for a trade-in or buy-back program.
The group formed in May and is led by La Jollan and Ban Leaf Blowers San Diego member Carolyn Marsden and Sierra Club San Diego representative Ron Askeland. San Diegans for Sustainable, Equitable & Quiet Equipment in Landscaping, or SD-SEQUEL, meets every two or three weeks on Zoom to work on a draft ordinance that would implement a trade-in or buy-back program to help transition from gas to electric leaf blowers. A group of local residents reports it’s making progress toward its goal of shutting down gas-powered leaf blowers across San Diego County, encouraged by parallel statewide efforts.
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