Red tape surrounds landfill - Ohio EPA sets hearing for comment on proposed clarifications on enforcement (The Times-Reporter)

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will hold a hearing Jan. 8 in Columbus for comment on proposed clarifications to several of its regulations, including one that states its Division of Air Pollution Control will not take action against odors “unless the emission associated with the odor also causes adverse health effects or property damage.”

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Illinois and other states sue EPA to lower soot levels, save lives (WQAD Moline) ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Illinois and a dozen other states and the District of Columbia are suing the U-S government over air pollution from smokestacks and exhaust pipes. [News Source]

Grappling with Asia’s tsunami of the air? Close to a thousand people from all over the world converged in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in mid December 2006. to discuss and debate one of Asia's biggest development challenges: how to clean up its fouled air. [News Source]

2006 conservation accomplishments. Among key areas of progress in Wisconsin’s environmental and natural resources management this past year were: streamlining air and waste regulatory processes, moving the cleanup of the Fox River forward, and a fish and wildlife account audit. [News Source]

State EPA chief to recommend course of action on landfill odor. This week the findings and recommendations on how to handle the future of Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility will be issued by the outgoing Ohio EPA director. [News Source]

Md. air has high levels of cancer-causing toxins. Maryland's air has cancer-causing toxins at levels far above what the federal government deems safe. [News Source]

New study links unsafe levels of auto emissions to cancer. Marylanders breathe unsafe levels of cancer-producing toxins from car emissions, according to a new report by Environment Maryland, a nonprofit advocacy group. [News Source]

Reduction of auto emissions urged. Pointing to a study showing an elevated risk of pollution-related cancer, a group said they would push for legislation requiring Maryland to join 11 other states that require new vehicles to be equipped with technology designed to reduce airborne emissions. [News Source]

Coalition seeks clean-car measure to clear the air. The cancer risk from breathing polluted air in Maryland's largest jurisdictions far exceeds the federal government standard. [News Source]

Fair officials kill stock car plan. Vermont State Fair President and Manager Richard Rivers said the organization's Board of Trustees decided by a 9-2 vote recently to shelve the idea of converting the fairground's half-mile dirt track into a high-octane raceway. [News Source]

By LANA MICHELIN Advocate staff (Red Deer Advocate) Smog-like air pollution in the Red Deer area could already be causing breathing problems for people with asthma at certain times of the year, says an area environmentalist. [News Source]