Baytown refinery cited for spill that coated residents with oil. State investigators have cited Exxon Mobil Corp., saying the company failed to disclose in a timely manner details of a storage tank leak at one if their Texas refineries that coated a nearby public housing project with oil. [News Source]

Company has history of incidents. Byron, GA residents have long been concerned about pollution from the Pyrotechnics Specialties, Inc. site, which used to be a government missile base, but EPD tests of area wells in 2002 showed no contamination. [News Source]

Juvenile center site’s soil tainted. A warehouse that Bergen County, NJ, officials are planning to condemn for use as a juvenile detention center has a history of groundwater and soil contamination. [News Source]

Preston wells are tainted. Two wells on Route 164 in Connecticut are contaminated and other water sources may be at risk because of a gasoline spill or leak. [News Source]

City won’t support tax on oil companies. There are 13 initiatives that have qualified for the November election, but the Bakersfield City Council has only taken a position on one of them: Proposition 87. [News Source]

Heat stabilized air quality. When mercury rises, air pollution doesn't necessarily follow. [News Source]

Sierra Club wants N.J. to re-examine tax break. The Sierra Club recently announced a campaign to call on Gov. Jon S. Corzine and the Legislature to reassess the state's Farmland Assessment program, which gives property tax breaks to anyone who owns five acres of land and sells $500 a year in agricultural products. [News Source]

Taking action on ozone. The stifling hot weather recently has triggered ozone action days in many parts of the country. But the EPA says it's making progress on cleaning up the pollutants that lead to ground-level ozone. [News Source]

Coalition rules out cutting petrol excise. The federal Coalition partyroom meeting has ended without coming up with a solution to high petrol prices. [News Source]

Concern raised about mine dust. A Ulan man is concerned at the dust emanating from Ulan Coal and the Wilpinjong Mine from diesel exhaust from big machinery as well as the coal mining itself. [News Source]

Haze from Indonesia returns to parts of Malaysia. Coastal areas in northern and western Malaysia were shrouded in acrid haze Monday after winds brought over smoke from fires in Indonesia. [News Source]