Power industry seeks high-tech solutions to mercury puzzle. This mechanism inside a cavernous building at the Presque Isle Power Plant may help achieve one of the nation's top environmental goals: slashing mercury emissions from incineration of coal to generate electricity. [News Source]

Public workshop on pesticides planned. State pesticide regulators will hold a public workshop Tuesday to gather input on reducing air pollution caused by farm and commercial pesticide products. [News Source]

A victory for clean air. Earlier this year, Gov. Rod Blagojevich proposed some of the toughest mercury pollution controls for utilities in the nation. Last week, Blagojevich delivered in a big way. [News Source]

Tiding over heat waves. Almost the entire Northern hemisphere is struggling with the seemingly unending heat wave, and Korea is no exception. [News Source]

Clearing air on California’s success in pollution fight. One of the biggest successes of government regulation over the past generation has been the project to clean California's air. But most of the state's residents have no idea how things have changed, or why. [News Source]

Healthcare for the oceans. The oceans are afflicted with chronic problems caused by human activities, and like our own bodies, the seas suffer when we put too much into them and expect too much out of them. [News Source]

Healthcare for the oceans. Pollution and overfishing have stressed oceans; they can no longer resist disease and degradation. [News Source]

‘Green’ governor needs to cool it. Maybe it's because California has sweltered through a bake-oven summer, but global warming has shot up on the public's list of crucial election issues. [News Source]

Fact: 46,000 pieces of plastic float on each square mile of sea. From the moment plastic was created 99 years ago, a new kind of pollutant entered the sea; one that took a century or more to degrade. [News Source]

An organic foods dilemma. Industrial Organics: They're mass-produced by agribiz but better than eating poisons. [News Source]

11 power plants will help TXU — but the air? This is one way that electricity deregulation works in Texas: TXU sells less electricity to fewer customers and still earns 33 percent more money. [News Source]