Pa. board OKs new car-emission standards. The state Environmental Quality Board on Tuesday adopted new air-pollution standards that will require new cars to be cleaner-burning and follow CA’s requirements as that state fights to impose even more stringent rules in the future. [News Source]

FAA plan flawed. County, state and local officials have strongly opposed the FAA airspace flight path plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement, which they said would increase air traffic over much of the county and greatly increase noise/air pollution. [News Source]

Acid rain now damaging soils in Western Canada. Acid rain, once considered a problem only in the eastern provinces, has now reached damaging levels in parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, according to new research. [News Source]

Prairies get first taste of acid rain. Acid rain, once considered a problem only in the eastern provinces, has now reached damaging levels in parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, according to new research. [News Source]

Ivory Coast clean-up begins. Hundreds of tons of toxic waste have been dumped across Abidjan, a port city in West Africa's Ivory Coast. As authorities investigate who's to blame, experts are directing the clean-up operation. [News Source]

Two-thirds of Czechs breathe polluted air. Over one-third of the area of the Czech Republic where more than two-thirds of the country's population lives has its air polluted, according to the latest report on the state of the environment. [News Source]

Greening up the conference business. Conferences aren't just hard on us. They wreak havoc with Mother Nature as well. Down in Austin, Texas, one group's trying to do something about that. [News Source]

Report details mercury levels in U.S. wildlife. Mercury contaminates wild animals across America, according to a report released yesterday by the National Wildlife Federation, a conservation group. [News Source]

High levels of mercury showing up in more animals. In some cases, the mercury levels are so high that the animals aren't able to reproduce at their usual rate, and in a few cases the mercury is killing animals outright. [News Source]

Climate change conference scheduled in Helena. Montanans from all walks of life and from all corners of the state will be looking for a coherent message on global warming to send to lawmakers this weekend in Helena. [News Source]

Carbon trade seen as essential for California. California's new greenhouse gas reduction rules will need trading of the right to emit heat-trapping gases to meet their goals, experts said. [News Source]