Energy in the developing world: Power to the people. Around 1.5 billion people, or more than a fifth of the world’s population, have no access to electricity, and a billion more have only an unreliable and intermittent supply. A growing number of initiatives are promoting bottom-up ways to deliver energy to the world’s poor. [News Source]

Shanghai takes lead in LED technology. The Expo 2010 Shanghai is lighting up the new green potential of LED technology. More than one billion LED chips are producing about 80 percent of the indoor illumination for the pavilions, Expo officials said. [News Source]

Strike leaves a deadly stink in hospitals. Biomedical waste has been piling up across hospitals in Kolkata following a shutdown of the lone collection centre at Howrah. The city generates a staggering 6 tonnes of clinical waste per day. More than 5 tonnes of this comprises hazardous clinical waste that has to be destroyed. [News Source]

Las Brisas hearing delayed. A hearing scheduled next week on the Las Brisas Energy Center air permit has been moved to October after an opponent of the petroleum coke-fired power plant’s expert witness was severely injured in a traffic accident. [News Source]

Third acid spill occurs at water treatment plant in Nevada. Bad things usually happen in threes, and Fallon officials hope that is the case after a third hydrochloric acid spill in less than two weeks occurred Wednesday at the water treatment facility. [News Source]

SCAG rejects air pollution reduction targets. The Southern California Association of Governments on Thursday rejected stronger greenhouse gas emission reduction targets recommended by the state's clean air agency. [News Source]

SoCal board endorses lowered emission goals. Members of Southern California's regional planning body voted Thursday to endorse lower greenhouse gas reduction targets than state regulators had proposed to comply with legislation that seeks to ease emissions by fighting sprawl and boosting public transit. [News Source]

Smog is down, but political fog is up. It’s been hot — plenty hot — but smog days are way down this summer. How did that happen? And who gets the credit? The Energy Minister tout the government’s moves to add 8,000 megawatts of “clean energy,” but one of Canada’s foremost weather experts and political critics accused him of blowing smoke. [News Source]

Scorching start to school year in NovaScotia. Thursday’s heat and humidity proved to be too much for some on the first day of the school year. [News Source]

Air near highways worst in summer. During the summer months, cars are an air quality killer, according to a new report from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. [News Source]

Bay ‘pollution diet’ moves forward. The Chesapeake Bay's new pollution limits are set, and now states are planning the "diets" that they're going to have to follow. [News Source]