Millions of homeowners in the Great Lakes region use two-stroke
engines. They’re found in chain saws, grass trimmers, and lawn mowers.
But those engines are major polluters. Now government regulators have
finally begun to focus on the pollution these engines cause, and so have
manufacturers like the John Deere Company. Deere is bringing new
technology to the marketplace. It’s called compression wave injection,
and Deere says it makes two-cycle engines produce much lower emissions.
But not everyone is happy with the result. The Great Lakes Radio
Consortium’s Herb Trix reports:
Author: Herb Trix
New Study on Highways and Sprawl
What role do new highways play in development? That’s the question to
be answered by a study that’ll start soon at the University of Iowa.
The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Herb Trix reports:
One Man’s Quest for a Clean Shoreline
In 1997, an Illinois man single-handedly cleaned fifty-miles of Mississippi River shoreline. This summer he’s aiming for more than four-hundred miles. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Herb Trix reports: