WHO cites need to use LPG, other cleaner fuels to cut indoor pollution (Manila Bulletin) The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasized the need to use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), biogas, and other cleaner fuels, not traditional kitchen fuels, to reduce indoor air pollution and achieve better health for the world’s population. [News Source]

Water plant concerns aired (The Sacramento Bee) A water treatment plant expansion proposed to keep pace with growth in the El Dorado Hills area drew concerns about aesthetics, traffic, noise and air pollution from people living near the once-rural site. [News Source]

Ethanol requirement adds to the cost of gasoline (The Pueblo Chieftain) It seems like an easy fix. Oil prices have hit record highs. Ethanol, a gasoline additive, can both stretch our supplies of oil and ease air pollution. And best of all, it’s a corn-based product. Although America imports nearly two-thirds of its oil, it grows all the corn it needs and more. So all lawmakers have to do is require that gasoline contain a given percentage of ethanol, and our [News Source]

Ethanol requirement: No tanks (Traverse City Record-Eagle) It seems like an easy fix. Oil prices have hit record highs. Ethanol, a gasoline additive, can both stretch our supplies of oil and ease air pollution. And best of all, it's a corn-based product. Although America imports nearly two-thirds of its oil, it grows all the corn it needs and more. [News Source]

Pollution increases at Solvay plant (Syracuse.com) A coal-burning power plant in Solvay now ranks among the dirtiest in the state after a surge in air pollution coming from its smokestack, federal records show. [News Source]

Grass isn’t greener — just more powerful (Orlando Sentinel) A proposed power station south of Orlando will turn grass mowed from 15,000 acres into affordable electricity and produce little air pollution. [News Source]

Grass isn’t greener — just more powerful (Orlando Sentinel) A proposed power station south of Orlando will turn grass mowed from 15,000 acres into affordable electricity and produce little air pollution. [News Source]

SMELLY COMPLAINTS (The State) Air pollution from chicken farms is an emerging issue in South Carolina, but odor complaints about farms are not. During the past five years, about 40 percent of the 450 complaints from residents about animal farms and slaughterhouses have focused on bad odors, according to state Department of Health and Environmental Control records. [News Source]