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The U.S. health care sector produces approximately 10% of national greenhouse gas emissions, paradoxically harming human health. Neurosurgery is a resource-intensive specialty that likely contributes significantly, yet literature assessing this impact is absent. We investigate the difference in carbon emissions between spinal versus general anesthesia in lumbar spine surgery. A total of 100 patients underwent a single-level transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) from a single surgeon; 50 received spinal anesthesia and 50 re