Many legislators drive fuel-inefficient cars (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) SACRAMENTO, Calif. – While California legislators lament air pollution and the rising cost of gasoline, nearly two dozen drive gas-guzzling vehicles purchased and fueled at taxpayer expense, records show. [News Source]

Save water, or else… Malaysians have been put on "probation" for two years to test their ability to conserve water. [News Source]

Ohio gives welcome help to foster the ethanol fuel industry in state, nation. New state and federal laws encouraging alternative fuels have combined with the world energy situation to make ethanol a profitable commodity, spurring investment in ethanol production in Ohio. [News Source]

Coal may surpass oil as better bet on demand for cheaper fuel. Coal, the hard, black byproduct of fossilized plants used as fuel since China's Western Han dynasty 2000 years ago, may overtake oil as the best performing energy investment. [News Source]

Selling a kinder touch of clean. The market for nontoxic household cleaners is still small, making up approximately one-tenth of 1 percent of all cleaning products sold in 2005, but it has gradually been gaining steam. [News Source]

Sister cities share toxic breeze. For years, the landfill in Brownsville, Texas has been burning, smoldering, and leaving behind a cocktail of airborne toxins that are carried over the Rio Grande into Brownsville and beyond. [News Source]

Hybrids in the Third World? While many consumers, investors, scientists, and environmental activists have focused on the importance of building hybrid cars for the U.S. market, it is in the emerging markets that the need for hybrids and other clean air technology may be even greater. [News Source]

Wind energy push loses power. Wind machines are marching across West Virginia, Pennsylvania and 30 other states, with about 20,000 generating power nationally without producing any air pollution. But none has been built in Maryland. [News Source]

Give law greater clout in battle against pollution. Despite the great losses resulting from last year's pollution of the Songhua River, no one has been made to pay. This is nothing but countenancing polluting. [News Source]

Sea polluted under authorities’ nose. Despite governmental efforts, pollution continues to seep from Chittagong shipping yards into the ocean. [News Source]

Locals of Okharpauwa restrict disposing garbage. Locals of Okharpauwa area have restricted disposing the Valley’s garbage at Sisdole landfill site from Sunday saying the government failed to fulfill their demands. [News Source]