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US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan

According to the International Energy Agency, fewer than 1 in 10 households in Europehas air conditioning, and the numbers in Paris are lower than that. The study said that of the 1.6 billion AC units in use across the globe in 2016, more than half were in China (570 million) and the United States (375 million). The entire European Union had around 100 million.

Germany, Australia, Italy, Canada and Britain will bring air conditioners as well.

U.S. bans on gasoline-powered leaf blowers grow, as does blowback from landscaping industry

“We’re not California, we’re not Florida. We have leaves. The average house in New Jersey, you take away 30 to 50 cubic feet of leaves each fall. That’s a lot of leaves.”