Range coal-gasification plant hits obstacle (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) Current plans for a $2 billion coal-gasification plant on the Iron Range are not yet in the public interest, according to a state commerce official. Excelsior Energy must first promise to control air pollution more dramatically than it has planned and sharply increase the protections it offers consumers against runaway electricity rates, argues Edward Garvey, deputy commissioner of energy and ... [News Source]

WA air pollution contributing to lack of rain, researcher says (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) A private researcher says Western Australia's drying climate be partly blamed on air pollution. [News Source]

Tire-burning protest to roll into Halifax.

People opposed to a Colchester County cement plant burning Nova Scotia’s old tires to fuel its kiln will roll into Halifax on Thursday for a noon-hour protest.

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Canadians give Tories failing grade on environment. Early two-thirds of Canadians believe the federal government is doing a poor job at reducing air pollution and fighting climate change, according to a survey conducted last month by a firm that does polling for the Conservative party of Canada. [News Source]

Gov’t doing poor job on environment. Nearly two-thirds of Canadians believe the federal government is doing a poor job at reducing air pollution and fighting climate change [News Source]

Iran raid ‘will be nuclear disaster.’ Environmental contamination could affect the region if Israel goes ahead with reported plans to attack Iran's uranium enrichment facilities. [News Source]

NASA installs air pollution monitoring equipment in Pakistan. Growing its international air pollution monitoring network further, NASA of the US has installed a Sun Photo Spectrometer equipment worth 24,000 dollars in Pakistan to monitor pollution in the country. [News Source]

Tehran pollution kills 3,600 in a month. Air pollution has killed 3,600 people in just a month in the Iranian capital Tehran, an official said Tuesday, describing the city's environmental situation as a "collective suicide". [News Source]

Pakistan body blames India for rising smog. The Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission has concluded that thick smog is actually caused by excessive burning of coal by the neighbouring Indian thermal power plants. [News Source]

CNG best option to check pollution in Mumbai: World Bank. Converting diesel buses to compressed natural gas is the most effective policy to reduce emissions from passenger vehicles in Mumbai, suggests a World Bank policy research working paper. [News Source]

China faces ticking rubbish time-bomb - paper. China will sink under the weight of its own rubbish within 13 years as millions of rural dwellers migrate to more affluent urban areas, state media reported on Tuesday. [News Source]