We can’t reverse global warming by triggering another catastrophe. Sulphate pollution killed hundreds of thousands of Africans. A plan to use sulphur to fight climate change risks the same. [News Source]

Seal the deal on emissions cap. Democratic negotiators and the Schwarzenegger administration have been close for weeks to agreeing on landmark legislation to lower greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. [News Source]

Inhale, exhale, pass the bill. Gov. Schwarzenegger and California legislators are in down-to-the-wire negotiations over a bill that would make California a leader in reducing one of the main greenhouse gases behind global warming. [News Source]

A new smog war. How hard is it to clean away smog? Very hard, in the case of the Central Valley, home to some of the nation's dirtiest air. [News Source]

Senate votes to ban smoking in cars carrying young kids. Californians who smoke in motor vehicles carrying young children could be slapped with $100 fines under a bill approved Monday by the state Senate. [News Source]

$50M price tag for new sludge recycling plant. North Shore Sanitary District officials have released figures showing their new Zion sludge recycling plant which will soon begin operation, will cost taxpayers nearly $50 million when all bills are in. [News Source]

DEQ plans no changes to Oregon field burning regulations. A proposed new federal standard to further limit the amount of air pollution allowed will have a big impact on Oregon, but not directly on field burning. [News Source]

Neither’s record doused in green. The two Democrats who want to be governor have pleased and angered environmentalists over sugar, a dam, oil and the Glades. [News Source]

Smoke effects on fire crews detailed. It's a nasty brew, that wildfire smoke moving in and out of western Montana's valleys these days. [News Source]

State to hold public meeting on Fairfield coal plant expansion. When the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality holds tonight’s public hearing on a proposed air permit for TXU Big Brown Unit 3, one of 10 coal-fired power units planned in Central Texas, few townsfolk may protest its coming. [News Source]

TVA official: Air quality improving. Many mountain residents consider the Tennessee Valley Authority and its 11 coal-fired power plants the villain when it comes to regional air quality, but John W. Myers, air quality manager, recently delivered a different message. [News Source]