Air quality improves, stage 1 alert lifted by DEQ. Air quality continues to slowly improve across the Treasure Valley. [News Source]

Delaware refinery to clean up air with new system. A multi-million dollar system that will tame one of Delaware’s largest single air-pollution sources is expected to start up next week at the refinery near Delaware City. [News Source]

DEC wants to modify power plant regs. New York state is proposing changes to the regulations which govern modifications to power plants, factories and industrial boilers. [News Source]

From dust to dust. The gray ash that covered terrorized New Yorkers after the collapse of the World Trade Center is still killing them five years on. [News Source]

US aids pilot clean-city project for Pune. The United States has awarded a $296,000 grant to the city of Pune for an anti-pollution project that may provide lessons not only for other Indian cities but America too. [News Source]

Gov’t to check health of cleanup workers. The Department of Health -Center for Health Development in the region is checking on the health condition of 2,749 cleanup and oil containment workers in Guimaras Island in the Phillipines. [News Source]

New Orleans health. The unprecedented catastrophes of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina have forced the United States to learn many lessons about the health and environmental consequences of disasters. [News Source]

Going to court over climate change. The problem of climate change just landed squarely on the desk of the US Supreme Court. [News Source]

Governor moves to cut vehicle emissions. Gov. Janet Napolitano took the first step Friday toward what eventually could be a ban on the sale of cars and light trucks that produce large amounts of "greenhouse gases." [News Source]

Plastics agent worsens skin allergies. Low doses of one of the most commonly used softeners in plastics can aggravate dust-mite allergy, researchers report. [News Source]

Arizona moves to save cash, cut air pollution. Arizona joined the fight to slow global climate change Friday with an ambitious plan could reduce greenhouse pollutants by more than half over the next 35 years and save taxpayers more than $5.5 billion. [News Source]