Air pollution no longer just Atlanta’s problem (AccessNorthGA) ATLANTA - Environmental groups last week chose a bustling midtown Atlanta office to unveil their united effort to clean up Georgia's air, but the organizers made it clear that air pollution is not just a big city problem. [News Source]

Minnesota must increase renewable energy options. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency reports that during 2004 the air quality index in the metro area rose seven times to a level that was unhealthy for sensitive groups. To improve air quality, Minnesotans must begin implementing more renewable energy sources. [News Source]

Head off attack on clean air. An industry-backed bill would severely restrict the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality's ability to regulate pollutants if they take effect. [News Source]

More preschoolers getting asthma. Asthma is America's newest childhood epidemic and the fastest-growing population of asthma sufferers is preschool children. [News Source]

Get balance right with Cape Wind. Renewable energy will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and combat global warming, which, if unchecked, will lead to rising sea levels, and may one day wash away coastal habitat and popular beaches. [News Source]

State steps up on combatting global warming. If Washington won't, then Sacramento will. This state has set its own course many times over: on car tailpipe emissions, a ban on coastal drilling and abortion law. Now: greenhouse-gas controls. [News Source]

Alaska agrees to clean up polluted Dicks Creek. The Wright State University graduate student wasn’t looking for trouble the summer she began chemical tests at Dicks Creek. [News Source]

State yanks ProLiquids’ operating permits. Right across 141st Street from the new Hermits Park ball fields, home to 300 young athletes, tons of waste is piled up at a bankrupt industrial treatment facility with a history of air and water pollution. [News Source]

Waters less turbulent for Dicks Creek. AK Steel has agreed to a $13 million clean-up of Dicks Creek where PCB levels in the fish and sediment were among the highest ever recorded in Ohio. [News Source]

Endicott awaits results from retesting. Dozens of Endicott residents will know in coming weeks whether initial samples collected by state environmental officials showing inexplicably high levels of a toxic chemical in their homes are a fluke. [News Source]

Employee guilty in filing of false report. Air-quality control engineer Ramzi Chaabane pleaded no contest to allegations he provided false information to the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District about a large engine operated at the company's oil and gas lease east of Los Alamos. [News Source]