Scores sickened by gas cloud. Three factories were evacuated and at least 165 people taken to hospital after an ammonia cloud polluted the industrial area in Cape Town, South Africa on Wednesday. [News Source]

Toxic gas scare in city. More than 160 workers, residents and pupils had to be evacuated and hospitalised briefly in Lansdowne when potentially fatal ammonia gas leaked from an ice cream factory yesterday. [News Source]

Report shows need for anti-pollution strategy. A new air quality report, available for public scrutiny and to be tabled before the uMhlathuze Council soon, has found that air pollution levels clearly show the need for emission reduction strategies by the city's main polluters. [News Source]

Russian fires mean UK Pollution. Out-of-control farm fires in Russia combined with adverse weather conditions have been blamed for soaring particulate levels in Scotland and Northern England. [News Source]

Answer to mystery of yellow dust is blowing in the wind. For hundreds of motorists the yellow dust which greeted them as they strode to their cars yesterday morning was not to be sniffed at. [News Source]

Emissions fees ‘will hit transport firms’. Small businesses will be driven out if plans to charge pollution-producing lorries, buses and coaches that enter London gets the go-ahead. [News Source]

Ontario joins U.S. air pollution suit. Canada's Environment Minister Laurel Broten filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago in an action against seven coal-fired electricity plants run by Duke Energy Corp. [News Source]

$10M prize for hydrogen fuel technology. Scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs will be able to vie for a grand prize of $10 million, and smaller prizes reaching millions of dollars, under House-passed legislation to encourage research into hydrogen as an alternative fuel. [News Source]

Oregon’s next product: ethanol. Construction on two plants to produce ethanol in Oregon is scheduled to begin in 30 days. They would be the first to produce corn-based ethanol in the Pacific Northwest. [News Source]

Ohio flashes cash in power-plant bid. Ohio taxpayers could pay more than $33 million in a bid to beat out six other states for a $1 billion, experimental power plant. [News Source]

Not your dad’s diesel. The benefits of diesel automobiles were touted yesterday at an event held for auto makers, parts manufactureres, and reporters yesterday in Washington, D.C. [News Source]