Here and Now: Regulating Air Pollution (KJZZ 91.5 Phoenix) Here and Now spoke to EPA's Colleen McKaughn and Ben Grumbles of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality about lowering the standard for ozone air pollution. The two joined the Sierra Club's Rob Smith and APS's Ed Fox in a discussion about regulating air pollution created by the Four Corners Power Plant near Shiprock, New Mexico and the Navajo Generating Station near Page. [News Source]

Painting indoors can be less toxic experience. The EPA ranks painting as one of the easiest ways to contaminate your indoor air. But today, homeowners have lots of environmentally friendly options when painting indoors, including paints with zero VOCs that are virtually odorless. [News Source]

Seeing through the fog around the Clean Smokestacks Bill. In 2002 North Carolina passed the Clean Smokestacks Bill. The bill was touted as putting North Carolina on the cutting edge of the fight against air pollution, but hasn't lived up to the hype. [News Source]

Nuclear is a safe and efficient way to meet rising energy demands. What would help create hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs, bring millions of dollars to federal and state treasuries, provide clean air, and enable America to be less dependent on foreign oil? Building more nuclear plants. [News Source]

Landfill water pollution an issue. Presently pending before the Morgan County Board of Commissioners is an application to rezone a tract of land to clear the way for the building of a Regional Municipal Solid Waste Landfill – a dump. [News Source]

Dust in the wind. Opponents of off-roading in the Oceano Dunes are hailing a recent study as more ammunition in their campaign to shut down the off-highway vehicle park because it’s harming the health of Nipomo Mesa residents. [News Source]

Eddystone residents question metal-shredding facility plans. Residents continued to voice concerns at a recent council meeting over a proposed metal-shredding facility on the site of the old Foamex plant along the Delaware River. [News Source]

New Courier index measures Cincinnati’s ecological health. A few hundred miles up the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Pittsburgh sits as a shining example of sustainability. [News Source]

Lawmakers urge against Marcellus Shale permits. State Rep. Greg Vitali, D-166, of Haverford, recently joined legislators and environmentalists asking that Gov. Ed Rendell stop granting permits to drill in state forest land over the Marcellus Shale region, a huge deposit of natural gas lying under much of the state. [News Source]

Port Authority to replace 600 older trucks. In hopes of creating less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, the Port Authority and the U.S. EPA launched a new program on Wednesday to remove up to 636 of the oldest and most polluting trucks. [News Source]

Oakville temporarily blocks plan for power plant. Oakville has put a temporary roadblock in the way of plans for a 900-megawatt gas-fired power plant that is opposed by the town and a coalition of citizen groups. [News Source]