Internet Criticism Pushes China to Act on Pollution Under popular pressure, Chinese officials have begun to track the most pernicious measure of urban air pollution and promise to set new health standards and publish data on air pollution. [News Source]

Calif. air regulators pass auto emissions rules to cut air pollution, spur clean car market Calif. air regulators pass auto emissions rules to cut air pollution, spur clean car market [News Source]

Internet Criticism Pushes China to Act on Pollution Under popular pressure, Chinese officials have begun to track the most pernicious measure of urban air pollution and promise to set new health standards and publish data on air pollution. [News Source]

Internet Criticism Pushes China to Act on Pollution Under popular pressure, Chinese officials have begun to track the most pernicious measure of urban air pollution and promise to set new health standards and publish data on air pollution. [News Source]

VIDEO: Air pollution alert first for Scotland Scotland is to become the first part of the UK to offer a pollution alert system which could be incorporated into weather forecasts. [News Source]

Breaking News: California passes landmark rules to curb auto emissions. Reshaping the next decade of America's auto industry, the California Air Resources Board on Friday approved historic new rules that require 15 percent of new cars sold in California by 2025 run on electricity, hydrogen or other systems producing little or no smog. [News Source]

Clean air advocates say Herbert’s air quality initiative doesn’t go far enough. Clean air advocates say they're glad Gov. Gary Herbert is making an issue out of Utah's pollution problem, but they find his air quality initiative to be unveiled next week falls flat by being all-voluntary. [News Source]

Three coal-fired power plants on Lake Erie to close. An Ohio-based utility said Thursday that it will close three Lake Erie coal plants and all but one unit at another, scrapping some of the biggest fish killers on the Great Lakes. [News Source]

Eastlake, Cleveland power plants among 4 FirstEnergy Corp. plans to close in Ohio. The older, coal-fired power plants will be shut down because they will not meet new federal air pollution standards. [News Source]

Maryland power plant closing to avoid pollution rules. An aging, little-used power plant in Williamsport is slated to be closed later this year rather than meet new federal air-pollution limits, its owner announced Thursday, in what could be a spate of such shutdowns resulting from the controversial Obama administration regulation. [News Source]

Brockovich, Gibbs question hysteria claim. Activists Erin Brockovich and Lois Gibbs say New York officials might have prematurely ruled out environmental reasons for teens having neurological symptoms. [News Source]