N.Y. needs council for food policy. Wilkins offers a solution for solving issues like obesity, food insecurity, factory farm pollution, and lack of quality foods. [News Source]

State should seek cheaper, cleaner energy source. The era of “cheap” coal has come to an end. [News Source]

Tighter wastewater regulations tough on small towns. North Carolina cities and towns are facing wastewater challenges because of increasingly tighter federal regulations. [News Source]

Choate Pond work expected to keep swimmers happy. Combatting recurrent E. coli problems, the town is expected to install today two pumps in the water to help keep water moving and E. Coli at bay. [News Source]

Tenant thinks mold has given her daughter asthma. Soon after Millie moved into her apartment in Hayward, her 5-year-old daughter began having trouble breathing at night, the result of a mold allergy. [News Source]

Tenant calls public housing unhealthy. Millie T. has been pleading with the Alameda, California Housing Authority to find her new housing after her daughter developed complications from what she says are unhealthy conditions in their publicly provided apartment. [News Source]

Energy company shies away from ‘coal’ references.

There’s a four-letter word that Energy Northwest wishes people wouldn’t utter when labeling the power plant it proposes to build at the Port of Kalama: “coal.”

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Stern measures and green hopes. For James Carmeron and his team at Climate Change Capital, which invests in building green energy facilities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the profit motive is the most realistic solution to climate change. [News Source]

Whitehall’s pollution shame. A Scotland on Sunday survey has revealed that, while Tony Blair has demanded huge cuts in energy consumption from the main departments of state, most are missing their targets. [News Source]

Hundreds of protesters demand PM act on Kyoto. Hundreds of protesters gathered in cities across Canada on Saturday to demand the Conservative government support the Kyoto Protocol and fight global warming. [News Source]

Olympics under a cloud. The most common response to last week's Stern report on climate change was: "What about the Chinese." [News Source]