Asthma cases spike with smog. It's the worst air this region's had in four years, aggravating asthma and sending coughing, wheezing, red-eyed sufferers to emergency rooms and doctors' offices. [News Source]

Ottawa fashions new plan for thorny green issues. Federal officials have plans for a wide-ranging environmental strategy that would include targets to reduce greenhouse gases, a global-warming adjustment strategy and measures to combat smog, among other ideas. [News Source]

Did Al get the science right? The usual oil industry flacks and dogmatic skeptics have surfaced to denounce Al Gore's global warming movie. But climate scientists say that, basically, he got it right. [News Source]

Cost of food grows to 18m tons of carbon dioxide. Cars, lorries and planes are emitting a record 18 million tons of carbon dioxide a year transporting food around Britain. [News Source]

Officials ban burning, warn of air pollution (Asheville Citizen-Times) Buncombe County has prohibited open burning today, according to the Western North Carolina Regional Air Quality Agency. [News Source]

`Creative’ money-burning schemes saving resources.

With Taiwan’s Ghost Month just around the corner, a number of cities and counties are pushing environmentally friendly ways to burn the spiritual cash, a tradition that creates even more smog and pollution than usual.

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