Proposal for Will coal plant thwarted. Environmentalists, health advocates and the City of Chicago scored a victory this week when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overturned a state permit for a coal-fired power plant in Will County. [News Source]

Working in tandem. In Granite Falls, Minn., state officials let a company open an ethanol plant last year knowing that the well water it would need to operate might last only a few years, according to regulators and state records. [News Source]

Herndon goes green. The Town of Herndon will soon be joining the ranks of the low-emissions vehicle revolution. [News Source]

Cleanup costs could doom PSEG plant. PSEG Power may have to shut down its coal-fired power plant in Hudson County by the end of the year, backing out of an agreement with government authorities to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to curb pollution from what is one of New Jersey's dirtiest power plants. [News Source]

Polluter employed EPA official. A lawyer who will lead federal environmental efforts in six Midwestern states recently helped an Ohio steel company when it was sued by the federal and state EPAs. [News Source]

EPA looks to help the industry grow. The federal agency is proposing rule changes that would allow ethanol plants to more than double the amount of chemicals they put in the air. Opponents say the move would harm public health. [News Source]

Power plant gets town nod. Following a financial agreement, the Ontario town of Halton Hills approved a new power plant, despite unknown environmental consequences. [News Source]

Plea to withdraw case against plant. The State Pollution Control Board has moved a local court seeking the withdrawal of pollution-related cases instituted against the defunct Paradip-based Oswal Fertilizer Plant. [News Source]

PCB wants chimneys for gensets. In order to check the increasing air pollution, the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has ordered that all generator sets should have chimneys so as to check the poisonous smoke from mingling with the air we breathe. [News Source]

Governor signs global warming law.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s strictest greenhouse-gas emission cuts, aiming to reduce the global-warming pollution by a quarter by 2020.

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State’s war on warming. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Wednesday setting California on course to reduce the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. [News Source]