No environmental justice.

An inspector general has found the EPA blew off reviews of construction or industrial projects in or near poor and minority neighborhoods 60 percent of the time under the Bush administration.

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Nothing improper at plating plant. Health officials say they found nothing improper at the plant where overheating equipment triggered chemical fumes that sent 17 firefighters to the hospital. [News Source]

Thousands evacuated after fire at hazardous waste plant. As a timely rain storm helped scrub the air in Apex, NC, firefighters cautiously approached a chemical fire Friday at a hazardous waste plant where explosions filled the sky with fireballs and a yellow haze. [News Source]

School PCB results on hold. Seeking to quiet fears about PCB pollution in the school, the state last spring collected samples but delayed test results have been making some members of the community impatient and others suspicious. [News Source]

Smog surge in Bay Area stirs debate. A heat-driven surge in Bay Area smog has cooked up a debate about the state of the region's air quality, and whether enough is being done to clean it up. [News Source]

EPA wraps up Desert Rock air permit hearings. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ended the public hearings portion of Sithe Global Power's application for an air permit Wednesday in the Phil Thomas Performing Arts Center. [News Source]

EPA proposes oversight plans for power plants. The U.S. E.P.A. is proposing Federal Implementation Plans allowable under the Clean Air Act to regulate emissions from two power plants on tribal land in New Mexico and Arizona. [News Source]

EPA wraps up air permit hearings for proposed Navajo power plant. Speakers at hearings on a proposed power plant on Navajo land are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate lesser known contaminants from the plant and to consider traditional Navajo culture. [News Source]

Study tracks ozone, aerosols feeding air pollution. In a new study scientists are investigating why the Houston area has some of the country's foulest air. [News Source]

Study tracks ozone, aerosols feeding Texas air pollution. Williams' task, along with the nearly three dozen other scientists aboard, is to identify the microscopic particles making air in Houston, Galveston and elsewhere in East Texas some of the foulest in the country. [News Source]

Riding the environmental justice bus. Lawyer Monique Harden helped organize a bus tour to raise awareness about environmental injustice in poor neighborhoods across the nation. [News Source]