Ski slopes becoming environmentally friendly.

Ski slopes all over the Northeast are turning green. It has everything to do with global warming. But not in the way you might think.

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Old agreement had its day; Great Lakes action plan is now needed. A U.S.-Canadian group that oversees Great Lakes issues is onto something with a recent report urging a new approach to water quality. [News Source]

City buses guilty of choking us. After a year of studying evidence and hearing legal arguments, the Central Administrative Court ruled on Tuesday that the state-run Bangkok Mass Transit Authority was guilty of letting smoke-belching buses operate on city streets. [News Source]

Flaws in U.S. energy policy exposed again. Flaws in U.S. energy policy — and the hypocrisy that rules worldwide campaigns against air pollution — were exposed by a report from the International Energy Agency last week. [News Source]

Safety of South San Francisco project questioned by neighbors. Boaters at Oyster Point's marinas are worried impact of work at a nearby former steel plant since they learned the soil being graded there is full a steelmaking byproduct that includes toxic heavy metals. [News Source]

Port air plan opens door for growth. The adoption of the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan could set the stage for what may be the harbor's most significant growth spurt in years. [News Source]

Haze over city should dissipate during weekend. The haze that has been hanging over the city for days is not alarmingly noxious and should dissipate during the weekend, officials said. [News Source]

Waste coal power plant OK’d by panel. Plans to build one of the largest waste coal power plant in the United States in the town of Nemacolin have cleared what promises to be the first in a series of legal hurdles. [News Source]

Big dry means bad air days. Drought, wind-blown dust and bushfire smoke have emerged as the latest problems for Melbourne's air quality. [News Source]

Power plant rally to go ahead. Local conservationists will defy martial law and stage a rally in Prachuap Khiri Khan province today to oppose a 4,000MW coal-fired power plant project being developed by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand in Thap Sakae district. [News Source]

China punishes river’s polluters. China has punished officials responsible for a toxic river spill which threatened the water supplies of millions of people in China and Russia. [News Source]