Irving refinery project comes at a good time. Irving Oil executives are preparing to unveil plans to build a second oil refinery in Saint John on Thursday, and industry analysts say the company's timing couldn't be better. [News Source]

Ottawa’s car-emissions move creates cloud of anxiety for auto industry. Canadian carmakers are being "picked on" as the federal government plays politics with new exhaust pollution standards. [News Source]

Ottawa’s car-emissions move creates cloud of anxiety for auto industry. Carmakers were told in Ottawa that new exhaust-pollution rules are coming down the pipe. [News Source]

Haze disrupts air travel in Malaysia’s Sarawak state. Smog from fires raging on Indonesia's side of Borneo island has disrupted air traffic in neighbouring Malaysia's Sarawak state which is choking under unhealthy levels of haze. [News Source]

Indonesia haze worsens, airplanes warned. Indonesia on Wednesday urged airports in areas shrouded by thick smoke from forest fires caused by deforestation to close if conditions made landings’ hazardous. [News Source]

Beijing Olympics has put pollution in the spotlight. The biggest concern for olympic athletes in Beijing in 2008 is air quality. [News Source]

WHO urges stricter air pollution controls to cut urban deaths. Stricter air quality rules could dramatically reduce the two million deaths which are caused in polluted cities every year, the World Health Organisation has said. [News Source]

WHO calls for improved air quality, says pollution kills 2 million people each year. The WHO on Thursday called on governments to improve air quality in their cities, saying that more than half the deaths from air pollution occurs in developing countries. [News Source]

DEP ‘green’ building sets good example for all businesses. The DEP is requiring that all new buildings designed for the state be green buildings, which means they are friendly to the environment and to the employees who occupy them. [News Source]

Hydropower to hydrogen project advances. Plans are underway for one of the world's largest hydrogen demonstration projects, a $21 million initiative to harness hydropower to produce clean-burning, carbon-free gas to fuel nonpolluting hydrogen vehicles. [News Source]

Churches push Al Gore film.

Churches around Maine will be showing a film about climate change as part of a nationwide push by faith-based groups to encourage caring for the environment.

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