UK pushes to speed up levy on air pollution (Financial Times) Britain will today lead a charge to bring forward the timetable for making the world's airlines pay for the cost of their pollution. Senior UK ministers will argue at a meeting today in Germany for their inclusion in the European Union's greenhouse gas trading scheme within two years. [News Source]

UK pushes to speed up levy on air pollution (Financial Times) Britain will today lead a charge to bring forward the timetable for making the world's major airlines pay for the cost of their pollution. Senior UK ministers will argue at a meeting today in Germany for their inclusion in the European Union's greenhouse gas trading scheme within two years. [News Source]

Plymouth State to study acid rain (Boston Globe) Have federal air pollution laws really reduced acid rain in the Northeast? Plymouth State University has just gotten a big grant to try to find out. [News Source]

Bay State fails in its ‘green’ efforts. More than a thousand of Massachusetts' most heavily contaminated waste sites haven't been cleaned up and the state is losing hundreds of acres of wetlands every decade, according to a new "State of the Environment" report. [News Source]

San Joaquin Valley meets clean air guidelines. Environmentalists decried the announcement, saying it was too soon to clear a region still plagued with bad air. [News Source]

Commuter-friendly bosses flood Bay. The Bay Area is the place to work when it comes to benefits for public transit commuters. Providing such benefits is becoming an economic imperative as well as an aid in limiting traffic congestion and air pollution, say experts. [News Source]

State agency gives TXU draft permits for 6 plants. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued draft permits Wednesday for six coal-fired power plants that TXU Corp. has proposed building. [News Source]

Cut idling by trucks, group asks regulators. A Carlisle-based group is aiming to curb the pollutants coming from tractor-trailers. [News Source]

New pollution rules coming. Federal Conservatives say they will introduce a plan today that will turn Canada into a world leader on the environment. [News Source]

Clean-air rules wouldn’t start until 2010. Industrial polluters would have until at least 2010 before they would face regulations under the government's Clean Air Act, a leaked internal document has revealed. [News Source]

Booth beaten in push for pollution audit. A motion to develop a clean air action plan for the Tamar Valley was voted down in the Parliament yesterday. [News Source]