Bill signals Kyoto is dead for Canada — and so are unrealistic emission targets, Prime Minister Stephen Harper may always be out of step with environmental activists, and with much of the media, over the environment. [News Source]

Raise the hybrid credit cap and put the heat on Detroit. A month ago, the most efficient hybrid automobile on the road came equipped with a $3,150 tax credit. Today, it's down to $1,575; in less than a year, it will be gone. [News Source]

Cleaner air: Let’s get on with it. Contrary to popular myth, federal Environment Minister Rona Ambrose did not kill Canada's participation in the Kyoto treaty last week with the introduction of her Clean Air Act. [News Source]

Beaver lake : seedy sewer system a concern. Problems can arise when operators do not have the equipment or knowledge to maintain decentralized sewer systems. [News Source]

Some welcome Andrews County nuclear projects. Polling and public meetings that resemble pep rallies indicate why Andrew's County has invited an experimental nuclear reactor just a few feet from a uranium enrichment complex under construction. [News Source]

Over a barrel of toxicity. Two years after a padlocked industrial site was discovered to be essentially a toxic waste dump surrounded by homes and a school, the federal government is figuring out whom to sue to pay for the cleanup. [News Source]

Research center says fish caught off coast is safe to eat despite oil spill.

The director of the Center for Scientific Research (CSR) said Friday that Lebanese should no longer be afraid to eat fish from the sea.

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Damage done, only thing left is to prevent future haze. Residents of Singapore and some parts of Thailand as well as in Sumatra and Kalimantan, wake up to the smell of acrid smoke and polluted mists, hardly able to see beyond a few kilometres. [News Source]

Plans afoot for national car-free day. China is planning to stage an annual car-free day across the country to reduce worsening air pollution, an official said. [News Source]

Armenia: environmental change spurs respiratory diseases. A dramatic increase in respiratory diseases over the past several years means that Armenia is now struggling to breathe, physicians and public health specialists say. [News Source]

Critics say new environment policy ignores science. Canada has officially turned its back on the Kyoto Protocol and climate change in its new "green plan" introduced Thursday, environmentalists say. [News Source]