High hourly air pollution levels more than double stroke risk. High hourly levels of air pollution, more than double the risk of one type of stroke, suggests research. [News Source]

Bayview residents most hospitalized. Residents of San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point district are hospitalized more than residents in any other neighborhood in the city for almost every disease, including asthma, heart failure, and diabetes. [News Source]

EPA decision on soot levels could hit area. What the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decides to do about soot could be the agency's most important decision of the year. [News Source]

Scientists find signs of asthma’s rise in N.J. Two New Jersey researchers unveiled a study Wednesday that confirmed the fears of parents in rural New Jersey: Asthma rates are surprisingly high. [News Source]

2 new bills on warming. After cutting a deal with Democrats to cap greenhouse gas emissions in California, Gov. Schwarzenegger faces decisions this month on two other bills that could dramatically reduce pollution from the auto and energy industries. [News Source]

Diesel upgrade aims for pollution downturn. The transition will be the first significant upgrade to diesel fuel in more than a decade - a period that has seen major strides in cleaner-burning gasoline for passenger cars. [News Source]

Concerns raised over natural gas from abroad. State utility regulators are embroiled in a debate over new kinds of natural gas that opponents contend would worsen air pollution. [News Source]

Man-made toxins are found in even the best diets. Traces of a cocktail of toxic chemicals linked to cancer and foetal deformities are being eaten even in the healthiest of diets. [News Source]

California sues over vehicle emissions. The state of California sued the country's largest automobile manufacturers Wednesday, seeking billions of dollars for environmental damage caused by tailpipe emissions. [News Source]

Two-thirds of Czechs breathe polluted air.

More than one-third of the area of the Czech Republic, home to more than two-thirds of the country’s population, has polluted air, according to the latest report on the state of the environment.

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Air pollution levels in Nicosia ‘dangerously high’ . There are dangerous levels of particulate matter in the atmosphere over Cyprus and little is being done to reduce them, especially in Nicosia, according to a survey recently conducted by a mayoral candidate. [News Source]