After bio-diesel, PMT buses to go for retro-fitted engines. The USTD has awarded the Pune Municipal Corporation a grant of $ 296,000 to go in for retrofitting of its city buses in a bid to improve its local air quality management practices and reduce emissions. [News Source]

Diesel drivers pumping low-sulfur fuel. Many Inland truck owners and truck industry officials welcomed California's new diesel-fuel regulations Friday for the likely decrease in air pollution but said they have concerns about the cost. [News Source]

Nuclear renaissance? There hasn't been a nuclear power plant built in 30 years, and the disaster at Three-Mile Island all but sealed the industry's fate. Now there are serious moves underway to bring nuclear back, beginning in the South. [News Source]

Aspen joins in Supreme Court case vs. EPA. The Aspen Skiing Co. Thursday joined a major U.S. Supreme Court case against the Environmental Protection Agency to recognize greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants. [News Source]

Tories get ready to tackle toxic chemicals. Officials in the federal environment and health departments are to reveal which among 23,000 chemical compounds used for years in Canada pose the biggest toxic danger to people or ecosystems. [News Source]

Walnut Ridge wrestles with wastewater snags (Jonesboro Sun) WALNUT RIDGE -- City officials and representatives of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality are working to determine how to get the town's wastewater system back into compliance with regulations of the Arkansas Water and Air Pollution Control Act. [News Source]

Air pollution in the city (Financial Express) REPORTEDLY, air pollution in Dhaka city still afflict, on an average, 150,000 people every year. The figures point to the acute necessity of further introducing and enforcing existing rules and regulations against air pollution for reducing the number who get exposed to this form of pollution. [News Source]

Report: Global warming threatens national park (Hi-Desert Star) JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK - A new report by the National Park Conservation Association describes in detail the nature of and impacts to national parks by air pollution. [News Source]

Yogya promotes bicycle use (The Jakarta Post) YOGYAKARTA: In an effort to reduce the level of air pollution and restore the slogan of "Yogyakarta the Bicycle City", five higher learning institutes launched Friday the "Yogya Fun Cycling, Yogya Returns to Cycling" program. [News Source]

Woodstove rebate program extended for three weeks (Dayton Daily News) DAYTON — The Greater Dayton Woodstove Changeout program has been extended three weeks, with the Regional Air Pollution Control Agency providing rebates through participating retailers. [News Source]