China nomads on energy’s cutting edge. China's plan to cut coal use has brought electricity to nomads and hopes for cleaner air by 2020. [News Source]

Leaders accept California bill to cut emissions. California's political leaders announced an agreement on Wednesday that imposes the most sweeping controls on carbon dioxide emissions in the nation. [News Source]

Dogs Plus Smog Bad for Asthmatic Kids (HealthCentral.com) WEDNESDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Fido may not be an asthmatic child's best friend, a new study suggests. A team at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine found that the presence of dogs in the home can worsen lung response to air pollution in children with asthma. [News Source]

Promising New Data On A Gasoline-saving Device That Cuts Air Pollution (Science Daily) Start the car on a hot summer day, and barely 20 percent of the precious gasoline injected into an engine vaporizes and powers the engine. The rest becomes an important part of the engine's emissions of unburned hydrocarbon air pollutants. [News Source]

Peabody gets EPA approval of air permit for proposed plant (Southern Illinoisan) ST. LOUIS - Peabody Energy Corp. pressed ahead Wednesday with plans for a $2 billion power plant in southern Illinois after getting the federal government's approval of an air-pollution permit environmentalists might continue to challenge. [News Source]

Commute Solutions Month To Decrease Air Pollution (KXAN 36 Austin) With gasoline prices hovering at $3 per gallon, leaving the car at home and sharing a ride has never looked better. The price of gas might have eased a bit, but it's still a big bite in the wallet. [News Source]

Stricter federal particulate standards not expected to affect field burning (Lebanon Express) The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has no plans to change the Willamette Valley's field burning program in response to stricter federal air pollution standards. The biggest impact of new regulations is expected to be on wood-burning stoves. [News Source]

Brunner Island Plant Cultivates Its Wild Side (RedNova) By Ad Crable PPL's Brunner Island coal-fired power plant is not normally thought of as an ecological gem. It's made the news for its contribution to acid rain, smog and mercury air pollution, as well as fish kills. [News Source]

Rypos Awarded Texas State Grant to Test its Advanced Air Pollution Technology on Dallas -Fort Worth and (PR Web via Yahoo! News) Holliston, MA (PRWEB) August 30, 2006 -- Rypos has been selected to receive a Texas state grant to test its advanced diesel engine emission filters for their ability to cut air pollution from engines used to generate electricity and run oil and construction industry equipment. [News Source]

EPA Takes Important Step in Controlling Air Pollution from Farm Country Animal Feeding Operations (PollutionOnline) EPA has just gotten approval to take the next important step to gather air emissions data from agricultural animal feeding operations and to ensure compliance with environmental laws. This step consists of certain AFOs voluntarily taking part in a nationwide monitoring study to evaluate their air emissions [News Source]

Rypos Awarded Texas State Grant to Test its Advanced Air Pollution Technology on Dallas -Fort Worth and (PR Web) Massachusetts Developer of Advanced Diesel Filter Technology is Part of $7.5 Million Clean Air Research Program in Texas --- Rypos’ active regeneration technology is a vast improvement over passive ceramic filters that require high exhaust temperature. When the sintered-metal filter cartridges at the heart of the Rypos system need to be cleaned or regenerated, a microprocessor sends an electric [News Source]