Council wants oil producers to fund air pollution cleanup (Channel 2 News Anchorage) The regional citizen’s advisory council in Prince William Sound is launching an ad campaign in order to coerce the big oil producers into funding air pollution cleanup. The council is concerned about toxic emissions from the Ballast Water Treatment Facility in Valdez, which has allowed poisons, including benzene, into the air, it says. [News Source]

Tougher car exhaust rule advances in Pa. A proposal to require new cars in Pennsylvania to be cleaner-burning next year and meet California's standards cleared another hurdle Thursday as it winds through a lengthy regulatory process. [News Source]

US seeks to cut emissions from gasoline deliveries. US regulators on Thursday proposed rules to reduce toxic emissions that escape into the air when gasoline is loaded into delivery trucks and sent to service stations. [News Source]

Province improves energy efficiency grade. The Canadian province of Saskatchewan received a B-minus in this year's sixth annual report, an improvement from last year's C grade and the continuation of an impressive four-year turnaround. [News Source]

Peel wants less pollution from U.S. This week, Canada's Peel Region added its name to a petition asking America's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to curb pollution spewing out of 150 coal-fired plants in seven mid-western states. [News Source]

Hanoi looks for pollution solution. As the Vietnamese city of Hanoi's landscape continues to change with development, the effects of air pollution are beginning to take their toll on the city's inhabitants. [News Source]

Indonesia plans to stop haze repeat. Indonesia is planning a series of measures to prevent a repeat of the choking haze which has engulfed the region, officials said today following a meeting with Southeast Asian neighbours on how to tackle the problem. [News Source]

Dust levels double OECD’s. The amount of dust in Korea's air is more than twice the amount found in Japan's or in the air of any other OECD country, the Ministry of Environment said yesterday. [News Source]

Seafood stocks are under siege, scientists say. Declining ocean biodiversity could lead to the collapse of all commercial seafood stocks in the wild by midcentury, said a new international study that involves San Diego scientists. [News Source]

Ocean habitats on the brink . The world's oceans are under an increasing assault from over-fishing, pollution and global warming that threatens to wipe out vital fisheries and to create a crisis in food supplies before the middle of this century. [News Source]

Seafood as we know it may vanish. There are a lot of fish in the sea, but that may not be true for long. Seafood could disappear completely from menus worldwide by 2048 if current trends of species loss continue. [News Source]