Commission looks at area’s air quality. In its self-promoted role as a champion of the environment, the Meadowlands Commission is conducting a three-year study to monitor air quality in this wetland-and-industrial region located right outside Manhattan. [News Source]

Commission looks at area’s air quality. The Meadowlands Commission is conducting a three-year study to monitor air quality in this wetland-and-industrial region located right outside Manhattan. [News Source]

City council backs mayor’s trash disposal plan. The plan would expand the city’s recycling efforts, and it would mean far fewer — and shorter — trips each day by thousands of garbage trucks. [News Source]

Fumes overcome workers. Department of Sanitation officials at the Queens West, New York garage were issued a notice of violation by the state Labor Department inspectors when two mechanics were found to have been overexposed to nitrogen dioxide fumes from a truck under repair. [News Source]

Chelsea plant adds fuel to wind farm debate. Cape Wind, Massachusetts has been battling for years to build a clean-energy wind farm on Nantucket Sound. Now its parent company, Energy Management Inc., has announced plans to construct a fossil fuel burning power plant along the Chelsea Creek. [News Source]

Some politicians to get blood tested for toxins. New Democrat Leader Jack Layton is slated to become the first of several prominent politicians to have their blood tested for chemical contaminants. [News Source]

Paper, pulp mills stir friction. Rebuffed by an international court but determined to stop the construction of two paper mills in neighboring Uruguay, Argentina is lobbying investors not to finance the controversial projects. [News Source]

Argentina lobbies investors not to finance Uruguayan paper mills. Rebuffed last week by an international court but determined to stop the construction of a pair of paper mills in neighboring Uruguay, Argentina is lobbying investors not to finance the controversial projects. [News Source]

Open burning worsens air quality in S’gor. The deterioration of the air quality in several areas in Selangor of late is due to the open burning on agricultural peat soil in Johan Setia in Klang and Sungai Belangkang. [News Source]

Green group slams city for poor air law enforcement. The Indonesian Forum for the Environment has said that low levels of public awareness of air pollution regulations, combined with a lack of serious law enforcement are to blame for much of the Jakarta, Indonesia's air pollution problem. [News Source]

‘Creative’ ghost money-burning schemes saving resources. Several cities and counties in Taiwan are coming up with "creative" solutions to deal with air pollution with the approach of Ghost Month, when local people burn a great deal of paper "ghost money. [News Source]