Olympics to bring Beijing short reprieve from pollution woes. As Beijing gears up to host the 2008 Olympics, officials are planning a host of stringent measures to clear the city’s badly polluted air – if only for the few weeks the world’s elite athletes are in town. [News Source]

China aims to cut air pollution in lead up to Beijing Olympics. China is preparing to take drastic action to ensure that worsening air pollution doesn't mar the 2008 Beijing Olympics. [News Source]

Italy faces fines for flouting EU environment laws. Italy faces the prospect of daily fines for failing to comply with rulings by the European Union's top court that it broke EU environment laws, the bloc's executive said on Friday. [News Source]

Diversity hotspots face fatal dousing with acid. As countries like Brazil and China industrialise, emissions from cars, power stations and factory farms are dousing biodiversity hotspots in acidic rains that threaten to exterminate thousands of species over the next 50 years. [News Source]

Residents offered ‘Clean Choice’ New Jersey's electric consumers are invited to enroll in the state's Clean Power Choice Program. [News Source]

‘Green’ electrical bills will cost more green. New Jersey's electric consumers will find something extra in their April bill: an insert asking if they want to enroll in the state's Clean Power Choice Program. [News Source]

Towering turbines harvest the wind The wind started cranking out power and money in Huron County yesterday with the launch of the Kingsbridge I wind- power project. [News Source]

PSC seeks review of power project. State regulators have asked the state Department of Justice to investigate whether a utility illegally withheld information on a lower-polluting alternative before they approved its plans for a major new power plant near Wausau. [News Source]

Global warming is oil, air pollution and climate problem. Ecologist and author Stephen Pacala spoke Thursday night about a rise in the sea level that may occur by 2056 if nothing is done about global warming. [News Source]

Ehrlich signs Healthy Air Act into law. Governor Robert Ehrlich signed a bill to enact the nation’s strongest controls on power plant emissions, which would require the seven dirtiest power plants in Maryland to reduce emissions of the pollutants that cause smog, soot, and mercury contamination of fish. [News Source]

Gov. Ehrlich signs healthy air act into law. Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. signed a bill into law this morning requiring dramatic pollution reductions at Maryland power plants, thrilling lawmakers and activists who've pushed the measure for years. [News Source]