The green line: hearings address LNG megaproject impact on megadiversity. May 8 marked the closure of a private hearings process, the first of its kind for a megaproject's environmental impact. [News Source]

Nuclear should be a part of our energy future. We are amazed at the seemingly endless parade of new, life-improving, and life-saving technologies, but too little attention is paid to the looming shortage of energy needed to power them. [News Source]

Cleaner air at Monroe. Resumption of Detroit Edison’s drawn-out program to cut air pollution from its Monroe, Mich., power plant should be good news for anyone in the metro Toledo area who breathes. [News Source]

‘Green Port’ moving forward. The Port of Long Beach last week released a report card on its efforts to be more environmentally compatible, saying efforts to turn the complex into a "Green Port" so far have reduced air pollution and improved water quality. [News Source]

Biologists examine waterway’s health. Although a $103 million cleanup of chemical contamination in the Thea Foss Waterway was recently completed, environmental regulators are still trying to decide if traces of pollution in the channel are harmful to living creatures. [News Source]

Job initiatives ring environmental alarm. Mining, farming, and logging job initiatives concern environmentalists, and depend on state administrative or legislative action. [News Source]

Environmentalists eye greener pastures. Parking lots, strip malls and subdivisions gobble up farmland and green space year after year. Pollutants flow into watersheds throughout the region. And more than 100 government bodies carve up Kent, Ottawa, Newaygo, Muskegon and Allegan counties. [News Source]

Compound reaction. With lawsuits and a new inquiry from federal regulators, the nation’s soft drink industry is under scrutiny for a chemical that has long been known to pop up in soda — benzene. [News Source]

Environmentalists count several victories at Colorado Capitol. Proposals backing cleaner energy sources, energy efficiency and tougher steps to curb pollution were part of an unusually large wave of green legislation during the recently ended 2006 session of the Colorado legislature. [News Source]

Breath of fresh air as Jakarta prepares to offer cleaner fuels. As part of the clean air campaign, the administration is slated to officially launch the use of biodiesel fuel and compressed natural gas (CNG). [News Source]

Hong Kong pollution index lets dirty air off easy, critics say. The scale Hong Kong uses to monitor the quality of air breathed by its 6.9 million people is less stringent than those recommended by international organizations because its targets are based on a decade-old U.S. model, environmental scientists and activists say. [News Source]