View from the bridge.

A slice of Hollywood East set amid the industrial squalor of Queens, Silvercup Studios play host to a new featured performer: New York’s largest green roof.

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LibDems promise a junk food revolution in schools. Nicol Stephen said he wants schools, hospitals, care homes, leisure centres and other organisations supported by taxpayers to serve local produce and cut down on junk food. [News Source]

Gas-free bus stops by Naperville. Researchers from Georgetown University were in Naperville on Monday to show how a 40-foot transit bus powered with a fuel cell and batteries is quieter, cleaner and more efficient than its diesel-fueled counterpart. [News Source]

Weizmann Institute looks to alternative energy future. An ambitious multidisciplinary research initiative into alternative, sustainable energy resources is being launched by the Weizmann Institute of Science to combat the world's most pressing energy problems. [News Source]

Rally pushes for environmental safety in Jackson County. "Environmental Justice for All: Tour 2006," has brought experts in environmental justice, public health, human rights and workers' rights from across the country to call for safe solutions to unnecessary toxic contamination of Gulf Coast communities. [News Source]

Members of Congress press EPA to OK Calif. auto emissions waiver. More than 100 members of Congress urged the EPA on Tuesday to allow states to adopt strict vehicle emissions standards that California regulators adopted two years ago. [News Source]

Trial set to challenge Calif. car emission rules. A U.S. federal judge has ruled that automakers can move ahead with a lawsuit that challenges California's strict regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. [News Source]

California begins risky war on global warming today. A landmark global warming law that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to sign today commits California to the ambitious goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020. [News Source]

Writer takes stock of contaminants within him. Chemicals by the hundreds are part of our everyday life. David Ewing Duncan wondered how many of them ended up in his body. [News Source]

As a test lab on dirty air, an Ohio town has changed. Three decades ago, Steubenville's reputation for having the country's foulest air made it a magnet for researchers in the young field of environmental epidemiology. [News Source]

The deadly price of dirty air. More than 5,800 Ontario residents are expected to die prematurely this year because they are breathing dirty air, warns a new report from the Ontario Medical Association. [News Source]