Almost 4,000 Air Pollution Projects Underway (RedNova) By Blankinship, Steve Utilities worldwide have initiated more than 3,800 air pollution control projects slated for completion within the next eight years. [News Source]

Go ‘green:’ eco-friendly products are in demand. Green is the newest decorating trend for your home. [News Source]

Our children health at risk. America's children are at risk not just from by the kidnappers, pedophile priests, and horny teens trolling MySpace that fill our headlines and sweeps weeks news broadcasts but from the air they breathe, the water they drink, the food they eat, and the chemicals that fill their homes and schools. And from our own government. [News Source]

Polluted Children , Toxic Nation. Harmful toxic pollutants were found in the bodies of every child and parent tested in a national study in Canada. [News Source]

Dry cleaning case with jury. Modesto's quest to make chemical companies pay for contamination caused by dry-cleaning solvents they manufacture was placed in the hands of a San Francisco jury Wednesday. [News Source]

Rocket smoke cloud sparks complaints. Some residents of Rancho Cordova, Folsom and Granite Bay were questioning whether their air was safe to breathe Wednesday following Aerojet's accidental ignition of an aging Minuteman rocket booster. [News Source]

Oil shale enthusiasm resurfaces in the West. There is no dispute that a thousand feet below the isolated ranch country here on Colorado's western slope lie almost unimaginable oil riches. It's locked in sedimentary rock, essentially immature oil that given a few million years under heat and pressure would produce pools of oil. [News Source]

Plant settles federal pollution suit. The Rohm & Haas chemical plant in Deer Park has agreed to pay a $485,000 civil penalty and purchase at least 300 acres of environmentally sensitive land in the Galveston Bay watershed to settle a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department. [News Source]

There’s no use crying over spilled gasoline. An estimated 9 million gallons of gas are spilled each year, contributing to hazardous ozone levels. [News Source]

Emissions confirmed in samples. A neighborhood group confirmed the presence of manganese and chromium in test samples taken from around Eramet Marietta, a metal refinery. [News Source]

Pike’s landfill stench to linger for weeks. A Canton, Ohio official told residents that he expects the severe garbage odor from the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility to almost entirely disappear within two months. [News Source]