Recycling plant fire in Ontario raises pollution concerns. A large fire Tuesday at a plastics recycling plant near Amherstburg, Ont., prompted officials to order about 400 people to leave the area within a two-kilometre radius of the blaze. [News Source]

State seeks comments on ethanol plant permit (Dyersburg State Gazette) Reelfoot Ethanol LLC is seeking air contaminant permits to construct an ethanol plant near Cates Landing in Lake County. As part of the permit application review process, the Tennessee Division of Air Pollution Control is seeking public comments. [News Source]

New CECO Contracts Total $12.5 Million (KiplingerForecasts.com) CECO Environmental Corp., a maker of air pollution control and ventilation products, said Tuesday it received $12.5 million worth of new orders. The company's abatement subsidiary received $7.5 million in new orders for equipment used by the ethanol and waste treatment industries. [News Source]

New CECO Contracts Total $12.5 Million (AP via Yahoo! Finance) CECO Environmental Corp., a maker of air pollution control and ventilation products, said Tuesday it received $12.5 million worth of new orders. [News Source]

Plantation fire triggers Malaysia haze (NDTV) Illegal fires to clear land on plantations have spiked air pollution levels and reduced visibility in parts of Malaysia to less than a kilometer, the Meteorological Department said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Diesel train rated worse in pollution (The Philadelphia Inquirer) For years, government scientists who measure air pollution assumed that diesel locomotive engines were relatively clean and emitted far less health-threatening emissions than diesel trucks or other vehicles. [News Source]

Haze hits unhealthy levels in Malaysia’s Borneo.

Thick haze from fires in Indonesia has caused the air quality over parts of Malaysia’s Sarawak state on Borneo island to hit unhealthy levels and visibility to plunge.

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Sarawak opens ops room as haze situation worsens. Sarawak opened an operations room Tuesday to monitor the haze situation after four urban centres including the state capital reported unhealthy air quality. [News Source]

Haze from plantation fires shroud parts of Malaysia and Indonesia. Smoke from fires set illegally to clear land for plantations on Tuesday, reduced visibility and spiked air pollution levels, officials said. [News Source]

Secret weakening of pollution targets angers Hong Kong greens. Environmentalists reacted angrily Tuesday to claims that a southern Chinese province has balked on a pollution-busting agreement with neighbouring Hong Kong, dashing hopes of cutting chronic smog. [News Source]

Report: Buncefield blaze left no risk to human life. The massive conflagration at the Buncefield oil depot has had no impact whatsoever on the environment and public health, an in-depth investigation has concluded. [News Source]