The Asia Pacific Industrial Air Pollution Control Equipment Market Booms - Better Times Ahead (SYS-CON Media)

Frost & Sullivan’s Environment and Building Technologies in Asia Pacific (http://www.environment.frost.com/ ) will host an analyst briefing webinar on APAC’s Industrial Air Pollution Equipment Market, on August 10, 2006, at 11:00 hrs (GMT+ 08:00hrs) Singapore time.

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Illinois, Texas enter next stage in efforts to land FutureGen. Illinois' duel with Texas for the world's first near-zero-emissions coal power plant entered its next phase Tuesday when delegations from both states were briefed about what's expected of them environmentally. [News Source]

Heat prompts record energy demand. Withering heat that’s broken energy usage records prompted Indiana’s utilities Tuesday to urge their customers to conserve electricity to avoid overtaxing the region’s power grid. [News Source]

Kentucky Utilities is in talks with EPA. Kentucky Utilities has been meeting in recent weeks with the Environmental Protection Agency in hopes of resolving alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at KU's E.W. Brown plant in Mercer County. [News Source]

Hot weather turns air bad. With the air more stagnant than forecasters had predicted, pollution regulators in Louisville and Southern Indiana declared an air-quality alert Tuesday that continues Wednesday. [News Source]

Heat ignites health alerts. With the air more stagnant than forecasters predicted, pollution regulators in Louisville and Southern Indiana declared an air-quality alert yesterday that continues today. [News Source]

Environmental groups fear that Atlanta’s air quality is worsening. State environment officials concede that Atlanta has failed to meet the federal government's tough new smog standards, a development that has green groups worried that the city will fail to meet another looming deadline. [News Source]

Metro Atlanta will miss EPA clean air mark. Metro Atlanta's smoggiest summer in four years has been so bad, state officials already know the region will not be able to meet the federal clean air standard by next year's deadline. [News Source]

Heat smothers state. August ushered in a blast of heat and humidity across Virginia, causing people to take refuge in air-conditioned places as temperatures reached 100 degrees. [News Source]

Heat is on again today. Today could be the hottest day of the year in Pennsylvania, but a cold front Thursday night should return temperatures to normal by the weekend. [News Source]

Extreme heat advisory in effect until Thursday. The heat advisory is warming up pollutants enough for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to issue an air quality advisory for today. [News Source]