New environmental group aims to enlist haredim.

Global warming, the thinning ozone layer and the greenhouse effect are not presently at the top of the haredi community’s priority list, but an organization known as Haredim Le’sviva (Haredim for the Environment) wants to change that.

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Fog blamed on pollutants from India: Suparco probe. The Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission is conducting a detailed investigation to substantiate its earlier findings that smog, more commonly referred to as fog in Punjab, is caused by excessive burning of coal by India's thermal power plants. [News Source]

Govt wises up to the ‘smoking guns’ of Lahore public transport. The district government will launch a crackdown against smoke-emitting public transport vehicles as part of its Clean Air Policy. [News Source]

Emissions tests best way to curb motorcycle growth. The government has called on the Jakarta administration to enforce emissions testing for motorcycles to control the increasing number of motorbikes in the city. [News Source]

Climate Change: No Time to Debate (6 Letters) (New York Times) To the Editor:. [News Source]

Number of infants with asthma rises in Prague. The number of children suffering from asthma and other respiratory disease has been on the rise as the number of cars and lorries in the city increases and the air is polluted with dust, daily Pravo writes today. [News Source]

Pollution-free automobiles at critical fork in road The cars of the future are here. They produce water vapour instead of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and other pollutants, and they run on hydrogen instead of conventional gasoline. [News Source]

Proponents hail offshore turbines in Delaware. Offshore wind power could be a new electric provider in Delaware. [News Source]

N.J. hasn’t targeted funds for studying wind turbines. New Jersey has yet to dedicate any money for environmental studies in advance of a test project with up to 80 wind turbines off the coast, according to a state official. [News Source]

HECO energy plan under fire. Hawaiian Electric Co. hopes to run a new power plant on renewable biofuels but some energy advocates say those fuels will come from plantations burned and bulldozed out of native forests, and that the utility should follow other avenues. [News Source]

Energy firms feel restless for big boom. Three energy companies hope they will hold the technological key to America’s energy independence. But before shale oil can flow from the Piceance Basin with the ferocity of Saudi Arabian black gold, the three firms must jump many regulatory hurdles, prove their technology economically viable and convince the public they can do it all with minimal environmental harm. [News Source]