How shareholder resolutions influence corporate behavior. Companies are becoming more responsive to shareholder concerns on issues such as pollution and labor practices. [News Source]

Catching a breath tougher in WMass. Folks who live in Western Massachusetts can't seem to catch a breath, despite the relatively good news from the battlefront in the ongoing war against air pollution. [News Source]

Navy study to urge razing Moffett Field’s Hangar One. Taking center stage in a cleanup debate is how the Navy will remediate a contaminated hangar, which some consider a national landmark. [News Source]

Georgia’s season of unhealthy air. First come the high pollen counts. Then there's smog season --- 153 days of it --- beginning today. [News Source]

Rising summer ozone means we won’t be breathing easier. The Pima County, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has announced the end of the winter pollution season. But during the summer season, there's still plenty of carbon monoxide to produce ground-level ozone. [News Source]

Non-profits offer ways to reduce emissions. Prompted in part by Gov. Bill Richardson's 2005 call for reduced emissions, non-profit governmental organizations are eyeing ways to make New Mexico's air cleaner. [News Source]

Smog season begins, a big concern to those with asthma. As ozone levels climb with the thermometer, even healthy people can have a tough time breathing, but the odorless, colorless gas, a main ingredient in Atlanta's skyline haze, is especially tough on asthmatics. [News Source]

It’s the season of wheezin’. The time of Red Days and wheezing lungs -- ozone season -- arrives today. Charlotte, North Carolina's marquee pollutant, although not its most potent, ozone is colorless, odorless, invisible. [News Source]

‘Boutique’ gasolines may get a makeover. Part of the president's plan to ease rising gas prices calls for a task force of governors to examine so-called boutique fuels -- blends made for specific regions of the country -- to reduce air pollution. [News Source]

County air still poor; not worse. While air quality across the nation improves, Gloucester County's remains poor but largely unchanged, according to a report released by the American Lung Association. [News Source]

Environment tops PM’s fall agenda, sources say. A clean air act to combat pollution and a package of new environmental protection measures will become the Conservative government’s new top priority come the fall, say senior Conservative sources. [News Source]