County suing Exxon over Archia Court spill. Harris County filed a civil lawsuit Friday against the Exxon Mobil Corp. over violations stemming from the January release of process gas oil from the company's Baytown Refinery. [News Source]

Hearing monday on Pascagoula chemical plant. City officials plan a public hearing next week to review a planned First Chemical Corp. project that would truck telomer alcohol to its plant here for processing. [News Source]

Disposing of old appliances: new regulations would change the way harzardous waste disposal is recorded. To help regulate hazardous waste, Iowa officials will discuss changes to state laws that would require annual reports from appliance demanufacturers to list the amount of hazardous materials removed from appliances still waiting for disposal on site, and the actual number and type of appliances demanufactured each year. [News Source]

Pro-serve had no record of code violations, fire marshal says. Right up until the explosion that shook their house and filled the air with a foul, chalky residue, neighbors knew almost nothing about the Pro-Serve Inc. plant just down the street [News Source]

Children’s mercury levels are not acute. Children and adults from the South Jersey day-care center that opened in a former thermometer factory should not have any long-term effects from the high levels of mercury they were exposed to, state health officials said yesterday. [News Source]

Power plants’ effects remain unclear. The impact of 17 proposed power plants on Dallas-Fort Worth air quality keeps getting hazier, following the delay of an environmental impact study. [News Source]

TXU’s emissions claim examined. TXU Corp.'s repeated claim that its 11 new coal plants will reduce air pollution emissions 20 percent is not relevant in terms of Dallas-Fort Worth's summer smog problem, a consultant says. [News Source]

Beaver Co. zinc plant fined for air pollution. The state has fined a Beaver County company $110,000 for violating air pollution regulations. [News Source]

TXU’s emissions claim examined (BizJournals) TXU Corp.'s repeated claim that its 11 new coal plants will reduce air pollution emissions 20 percent is not relevant in terms of Dallas-Fort Worth's summer smog problem, a consultant says. [News Source]

Ohio EPA is nitpicking, Metzger says.

An investigation into the stench emanating from Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Stark County’s Pike Township will have to wait.

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Air pollution no longer a problem (Lithgow Mercury) 'Observed lifestyle and socio economic risk factors' would undoubtedly explain some of the health issues that exist in the Lithgow Local Government area, according to the Sydney West Area Health Service. [News Source]