Inspections, filtering plant plan boost city’s clean-water efforts.

City officials are beefing up enforcement and moving ahead on plans to build a $5 million treatment plant in an effort to rid Loma Alta Creek of pollutants that wash downstream onto Buccaneer Beach.

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The future of transport: bigger airports, and motorists forced to pay by the mile (Independent) Airlines have been given the all-clear to carry on expanding, even though they are the UK's fastest growing source of air pollution. [News Source]

Plant will pay fines for excess pollutants. A corn processing plant that makes environmentally friendly plastic will pay $120,000 as a penalty for air pollution. [News Source]

Davenport Farms honored for protecting environment. North Carolina Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts recently named the Davenport family the Coastal Plain and State Conservation Farm Family of the Year fore implementing environmentally friendly practices. [News Source]

EPA drops plan to reduce reports on toxic emissions. The Bush administration has backed off a proposal that could have limited what companies in North Jersey and throughout the state must reveal about the toxic chemicals they release. But critics of the proposal may still have a fight on their hands. [News Source]

N.J. gets poor marks on finding polluters. The state is too poorly staffed to keep tabs on polluters in North Jersey, where air quality is already among the worst in the nation, a Washington think tank said Thursday. [News Source]

Air plan dangles carrot to clean up. San Joaquin Valley officials have a bold plan to win more cash to fight air pollution. [News Source]

Groups sue to block new TXU coal-burning plant near Waco. Two groups sued Dallas-based TXU in federal court Friday to stop the company's plan for a new coal-burning power plant near Waco. [News Source]

Some Ozark buses help keep air clean. One wiregrass city is hoping to reduce air pollution, by driving buses? Ozark, Alabama city school's bus system is filling up in a new way. [News Source]

N. Buncombe power plant could be up by 09. In a move designed to meet peak energy demands, Progress Energy announced plans Friday to build another power plant in Buncombe County, North Carolina. [News Source]

Expert studying smell from WW wastewater. An independent odor evaluation is being conducted at the West Warwick Wastewater Treatment Facility in an effort to identify potential sources of odor, and corrective actions. [News Source]