Cleanup of ‘cement ship’ oil begins. Two years ago, birds covered in oil kept turning up along Seacliff State Beach, a popular oceanfront park five miles south of Santa Cruz. [News Source]

Oil trail leads to ‘cement ship’. Two years after birds covered in oil kept turning up along Seacliff State Beach the source of the leak has been determined to be the famous "cement ship." [News Source]

Cities cut costs for energy. Cut energy costs, save the environment. More and more Johnson County cities are creating policies and undertaking initiatives with those two specific goals in mind. [News Source]

EPA orders Stark landfill to curtail odor. A smelly landfill in southern Stark County is a public nuisance and must take steps to eliminate the odors as soon as possible under an order issued Wednesday by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. [News Source]

Steele presents environmental agenda, record. Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele unveiled an environmental platform in his campaign for Senate yesterday that centers on cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay and promoting clean air and open space. [News Source]

Blaze blows bad air into atmosphere. Dense smoke filled Auburn-area skies early Wednesday morning after more than 600 acres burned in the Tahoe National Forest near Foresthill and many with respiratory issues were concerned about their health. [News Source]

Mira Loma residents against warehouses. Already amid heavy diesel truck traffic and polluted air, the 101-home, mostly Latino community objected to six more warehouses proposed next to a neighborhood already saturated with such facilities. [News Source]

Haze from Western fires cloaks peak . A murky pall hovered over the Pikes Peak region Wednesday, caused by smoke from dozens of wildfires burning more than 600 miles away. [News Source]

Grant to help cut pollution from school buses. Allegheny County students soon will be breathing easier under a county grant program to help make school buses puff less diesel-fuel pollution. [News Source]

EPA outlines priorities for controlling mercury. U.S. releases and uses of mercury have declined significantly over the past 25 years, but further reductions are needed to lower human and environmental exposures, U.S. EPA officials say. [News Source]

Tories to finally wheel out made-in-Canada environmental plan. They have to craft and sell a better idea than the $10 billion Liberal plan they scrubbed immediately upon seizing office or risk a nasty climate-changing bout of electoral ice-aging in the next election. [News Source]