A break in the smog. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia blocked the Bush administration's four-year effort to cripple a key Clean Air Act provision. [News Source]

Fighting those bad-air days. Three decades of hard work by anti-pollution forces and the laws to back them up have almost re-invented the air in Southern California. [News Source]

West Valley firm accused of tainting waterways. Federal prosecutors allege a gold and silver refining plant in Utah has been discharging excessively high amounts of selenium into the Jordan River and Great Salt Lake and concealing its illegal activities. [News Source]

Data: Pollution violations Almost half of Colorado's largest industries and city water districts have released more pollutants into creeks and rivers than allowed by their permits. [News Source]

Pollution hazards from fire averted. Quick action by the Fire Department may have prevented more serious problems in a tire fire at Brookside Auto Tuesday morning. [News Source]

Environmental Protection Agency is considers expanding pilot program to Imperial County. The EPA is considering expanding to Imperial County a San Diego County pilot program in which old Mexican big rigs are fitted with pollution-control devices. [News Source]

EPA advisers fault air-standards plan. A panel of independent science advisers says the U.S. EPA's proposed health standards for soot and other fine-particle air pollution don't go far enough to protect millions of Americans from early deaths and health problems. [News Source]

City offers Ford toxic air program amendments. Louisville is making an offer to Ford Motor Co. that would give the company some assurances on environmental regulations without substantially changing the community's new toxic air control program. [News Source]

Ma’meer gas leak ‘harmless’. Bahrain's national oil company Bapco yesterday moved to reassure residents that a recent gas leak in Ma'meer was harmless. [News Source]

You pollute the environment and destroy your lives. Nature has provided air in these proportions within the lower atmosphere for the well being of living things. Therefore, any activity that disturbs the perfect balance in this natural composition is dangerous to human health. [News Source]

Sandy firm turns gas vehicles into clean-air machines. Tai Robinson runs a company that develops and installs fuel system upgrades that enable vehicles to run on natural gas, hydrogen, methane and biofuels. [News Source]