Air Pollution Health Watch On For Tuesday (The Chattanoogan) An air pollution health watch has been declared for Tuesday. The air quality index is predicted to be 101, which is in the range that is Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups. [News Source]

Fill ‘er up with corn and politics. Have you been infected yet? I mean with ethanol mania? [News Source]

Yukon villages clear out the junk. Abandoned cars, old refrigerators and rusting oil drums that sprout cobwebs in weedy lots or pile up in landfills -- sometimes leaking toxins into rivers and lakes -- will finally get a one-way ticket out of Bush Alaska. [News Source]

Disputes swirl as building still stands after 9/11. Descibed as a "vertical Superfund site," the vacant 41-story building looms above ground zero, contaminated with toxic waste and still holding tiny body parts more than four years after the collapse of the WTC. [News Source]

New York shellfishing areas shut. The state Department of Environmental Conservation has closed several shellfish harvesting areas in Huntington after detecting a marine biotoxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning, which in extreme cases can cause death in humans. [News Source]

Smoggy days equal a free ride on ACE. During the Spare the Air Campaign, San Joauqin, CA commuters can take buses, trains and ferries for free on the first three weekdays that Bay Area air quality is projected to exceed federal health standards, officials said. [News Source]

U.P. to test anti-pollution technology in Roseville. With deadlines approaching for state and local agreements to reduce pollution at railyards, Union Pacific Railroad plans to bring pollution-control technology to its Roseville yard that could set a new benchmark in the industry. [News Source]

Union Pacific to test anti-pollution technology. Beginning in July, engineers plan to start testing the new equipment, which uses hoods to capture pollution from switching engines and locomotives. [News Source]

Report: Yellowstone air shows some degradation. Of six air quality categories studied from 1995 to 2004, Yellowstone National Park has four categories with statistically significant declining air quality trends -- the worst trend line in the nation. [News Source]

Cleaner air resuscitates Birmingham recruiters. With a $2 billion investment in pollution-control measures taking shape at its coal-burning plants statewide, Alabama Power Co. is helping Birmingham remove industrial recruitment hurdles the company had a hand in creating. [News Source]

Cleaner air resuscitates recruiters. With a $2 billion investment in pollution-control measures taking shape at its coal-burning plants statewide, Alabama Power Co. is helping Birmingham remove - one regulatory step at a time - industrial recruitment hurdles the company had a hand in creating. [News Source]