Smoke bedeviled Portlanders even in history’s haze. The smoke that added to the pollutant haze over Portland on Aug. 25 was the result of forest fires burning to the east of the city near Mount Hood and in Southeastern Washington and Northeastern Oregon. [News Source]

Buses in Davis County to be more environmentally friendly. The Davis School District is launching a project to clean up fumes from some of its older school buses. It's one of the few districts in the country to do that, thanks to a seemingly unrelated pollution problem at a nearby oil refinery. [News Source]

Air pollution worsens again. Wildfire smoke and rising pollution levels have once again degraded the purity of the Treasure Valley’s atmosphere. [News Source]

Local leaders looking to cork dirty exhaust spewing from vehicles. Driving an exhaust-spewing beater in San Antonio might cost you $350, while idling your big rig in the city limits also could make a dent in your pocketbook soon. [News Source]

Easy on the diesel, the fuel, the air. Truck idling has become a target for reducing pollution. [News Source]

Farmers threaten legal action over SA pulp mill plans. Local farmers are threatening legal action to halt the development of a pulp mill near Penola in South Australia. [News Source]

Lemma plays down Sydney smog fear. The NSW Government has played down fears that Sydney’s smog is contributing to the deaths of hundreds of people each year. [News Source]

Dry season could lead to more forest fires. The Asean Specialised Meteorological Centre has forecast below average rainfall until early October 2006 during the current dry season in Indonesia, possibly escalating forest fires. [News Source]

Acrid haze shrouds Malaysia’s west coast. Acrid haze thickened over Malaysia as smoke from a large number of forest fires in nearby Indonesia shrouded the peninsula's heavily populated west coast. [News Source]

Toxic waste threatens food chain. A large amount of toxic waste dumped by a Netherlands-based multinational firm in the Ivory Coast capital is in the sea and near market gardening areas, causing fears that it may have spread to the food chain. [News Source]

Hong Kong dirty air ‘100% fixable’ - think tank. Easily implemented air quality initiatives could rid Hong Kong of its notorious smog problem within two years, according to a think tank in the city. [News Source]