Aquila employees in Lawrence are gearing up to help plant trees outside the Health Care Access Clinic, part of the utility company’s “Power of Trees” program to help boost efforts in Aquila’s five-state service area to sustain the environment, improve landscaping and conserve energy.

In Lawrence, Aquila employees will work with the Lawrence River City Cosmopolitan Club to plant trees and spread information about their benefits.

“The average tree will in its lifetime consume one ton of carbon dioxide, and it creates life-sustaining oxygen in the process,” said Tommy Johnson, operations supervisor in Lawrence.