No-smoking ordinance fails (Terre Haute Tribune Star) Vigo County’s Board of Commissioners did not adopt a proposed public and workplace indoor air pollution ordinance Wednesday as the measure failed to garner a second to bring the issue to a vote. [News Source]

Bring your bike to work this week. Will Damico, an engineer with the Environmental Protection Agency, calculates that by riding his bike, he can avoid emitting over 700 pounds of automobile air pollution. [News Source]

Gov. Daniels says ending VET testing won’t hurt air quality. State officials say the air is cleaner and they want to clear a path for more development. [News Source]

State to end emission testing in Clark, Floyd counties. Thomas Easterly, commissioner of the Indiana DEM, said the agency has determined that removing the vehicle inspection and maintenance program will not cause the counties to exceed federal health-based ozone standards. [News Source]

Emissions testing’s demise welcomed in Clark, Floyd. More than 100,000 vehicles in Clark and Floyd counties are subject to emissions tests, but Gov. Mitch Daniels has announced that the tests are no longer necessary and will end Jan. 1. [News Source]

Decision time for Va. power plant. Dominion Virginia Power will announce today that it has selected a site for a coal-burning power plant in the Southwest Virginia coal fields. [News Source]

Scientists analyze pollution. Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory joined a team of more than 300 international researchers to perform a comprehensive study of the processes and effects of the Mexico City atmosphere earlier this year. [News Source]

Ontario joins U.S. anti-pollution lawsuit in bid to clean up Midwest plants. Ontario is challenging the U.S. administration to reverse a "regressive" approach to air pollution and has joined a U.S. lawsuit to force six major American coal-fired plants to install modern equipment to control it. [News Source]

Ontario joins fight for cleaner air. Ontario has joined a court battle to force a U.S.-based energy corporation to clean up its act and stop polluting air in the province. [News Source]

Industrial waste polluting capital. Where once residents used to pride themselves at living in a pollution-free city, toxic gases, effluents and smoke and dust particles emitted from the industries have become a major environmental hazard. [News Source]

India’s thermal power plants causing fog in Lahore. Thermal power plants located in India are thought to be one of the major causes of dense fog in Lahore and are causing a negative impact on the lives of the city’s residents. [News Source]