California air board funds $5 million in air pollution research (Enviornmental News Link)

SACRAMENTO, CA (08/04/06) — The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has approved over $5 million in funding for air pollution research.

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Report recommends broader approach to New Source Review rules (Enviornmental News Link) WASHINGTON (08/04/06) -- A new report from the National Academies' National Research Council illustrates a broader, more comprehensive approach the U.S. EPA's should use to evaluate changes to New Source Review, a part of the Clean Air Act that governs large, stationary sources of air pollution such as factories and power plants. [News Source]

0806008 (Enviornmental News Link) WASHINGTON (08/07/06) -- Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman of the Environment & Public Works Committee, has welcomed a report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) National Research Council report (NRC) titled "New Source Review for Stationary Sources of Air Pollution." [News Source]

California’s bold plan to protect the planet. As temperatures and sea levels have risen, glaciers receded and snowpacks melted, the governments of the world have dithered over how to save the planet from global warming. Last week, California showed them. [News Source]

Home depot design center EIR certified. After hours of public testimony by more than 50 citizens on a controversial commercial development planned for East Long Beach, four of the city's seven planning commissioners unanimously certified the environmental impact report for a Home Depot Design Center. [News Source]

Falling short. Protection against and monitoring of environmental impacts have fallen short of initial plans for energy development in the Jonah and Pinedale Anticline natural fields, according to a federal document. [News Source]

Nixon opposes plan to dump water. Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon opposes a plan by the Environmental Protection Agency that would allow states to dump dirty water into clean water without having to show the federal government that it won't hurt public health or the environment. [News Source]

Landfill’s odor called a public nuisance. Canton Health Commissioner Bob Pattison admitted for the first time in public that the odors coming from Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility, are a public nuisance. [News Source]

Ready, aim, misfire. The Coast Guard's proposal to test guns on Great Lakes hits waves of opposition from Congress and boaters. [News Source]

EPA proposes standards for 2 plants on Navajo Nation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed plans to regulate emissions at two power plants on the Navajo Nation, the Four Corners Power Plant near Farmington and the Navajo Generating Station near Page, Ariz. [News Source]

Coal plants may hinge on new commissioner. Gov. Rick Perry filled a key vacancy on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as it prepares to deal with plans for new coal-fired power plants that North Texas leaders fear will worsen the region's pollution problem. [News Source]