Answering the Call: Youth Get Real, Give Back (AsianWeek.com) "Do I dare disturb the universe?" This is what I asked myself when I first noticed our nation’s frightening levels of air pollution, contaminated drinking water, climate change and other "inconvenient truths": the reality that our planet is in serious decay. [News Source]

Air Pollution May Up Fatal Stroke Risk (WebMD)

Fine particles in air pollution may raise fatal stroke risk in people aged 65 and older during warm months.

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Clean Air Group Has $271M in Projects (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Demand for diesel fuel was reduced by 125 million gallons and carbon dioxide emissions were cut by 504,000 tons in projects undertaken by a public-private coalition trying to reduce air pollution in a broad swathe of the central United States, organizers say. [News Source]

Bentonville : Region’s air quality topic of 2-day meet (NWAnews.com) Business leaders and environmental regulators wrapped up two days of meetings Thursday in Bentonville, sharing stories of air pollution prevented and money saved. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition) [News Source]

Clean air group totals $271 million in projects in first year (KATC 3 Lafayette) BENTONVILLE, Ark. Organizers of a public-private coalition trying to reduce air pollution in the nation's midsection say the group came up with 271 (m) million dollars worth... [News Source]

Clean air group totals $271 million in projects in first year (KPLC) BENTONVILLE, Ark. Organizers of a public-private coalition trying to reduce air pollution in the nation's midsection say the group came up with 271 (m) million dollars worth of projects in its first year. They said that, collectively, those projects saved 125 (m) million gallons of fuel. [News Source]

Study: Bay Area suffers from environmental inequality (Tri-Valley Herald) People of color bear an unfair burden of exposure to air pollution in the Bay Area because they make up nearly two-thirds of the population living within a mile of refineries, chemical plants and [News Source]

Road subsidies hit Europe’s emissions efforts.

Road transport subsidies of up to €140bn ($184bn) a year are hampering attempts to reduce Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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Scientific debate on the wane, fight brews over how to address climate change. Now that it is official — humans are almost certainly causing the most dramatic climate shift the planet has seen in thousands of years — it is time to stop arguing and get down to the serious work of solving the problem, right? Not so fast. [News Source]

Cleaner consumption and the low-carbon life. A "low-carbon" life will require changes in how we live, some simple, others fundamental, experts say. Such changes are not necessarily onerous, but do require a shift in public consciousness. [News Source]

Green sky thinking: eight ways to a cleaner flying future. It is an undeniable fact that flying produces huge quantities of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Can technology really turn aviation green? More importantly, can it do so before it's too late? [News Source]