Latest News about Air Pollution and Its Effects

Doctors warn air quality in Utah has reached crisis levels.
Saturday March 31st 2007, 9:00 pm

A group of local physicians says Utah's air pollution problem has reached crisis levels and a public health catastrophe looms if something isn't done. [News Source]

Taking aim at all those plastic bags.
Saturday March 31st 2007, 9:00 pm

Paper is fine. But plastic isn’t — unless it’s biodegradable.

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Freshwater otters called upon to save seas.
Saturday March 31st 2007, 8:00 pm

Compared with when Columbus sailed, 90 percent of the worlds large fish have disappeared. Meanwhile, some 60 percent of the nations coastal rivers and bays are severely to moderately degraded by fertilizer-laden runoff. [News Source]

No idle threat: LaMattina wants to target tour buses.
Saturday March 31st 2007, 8:00 pm

As tourism season nears and more tour buses start making their way to Boston, City Councilor Sal LaMattina has filed an order calling for stricter enforcement by the city of state laws that limit vehicles' idling time to five minutes. [News Source]

GJ City Council gasps for more air monitoring on Western Slope.
Saturday March 31st 2007, 8:00 pm

More traffic clogging local roads and more drill rigs dotting the landscape have Grand Junction pushing the state to ramp up air-pollution monitoring on the Western Slope. [News Source]

Doctors Warn Air Quality in Utah has Reached Crisis Levels (KIFI)
Saturday March 31st 2007, 4:35 pm

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A group of local physicians says Utah's air pollution problem has reached crisis levels and a public health catastrophe looms if something isn't done. [News Source]

Cape Wind moves on to federal review.
Saturday March 31st 2007, 11:00 am

The developer of a Nantucket Sound wind energy project hopes to begin producing clean energy by 2010, after winning final state environmental approval yesterday, but the project still faces a major remaining hurdle: an expansive federal government review.

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Spring greening.
Saturday March 31st 2007, 10:00 am

In just a short while, natural home-care companies have gone from grassroots to gangbusters. Take Method, for instance. [News Source]

Doctors: Air-quality catastrophe looms for Utah.
Saturday March 31st 2007, 10:00 am

Utah's pollution problem has reached crisis levels, according to a group of local physicians. [News Source]

‘Every tree that survives is a miracle’.
Saturday March 31st 2007, 10:00 am

The secret weapon in the city's battle against climate change is growing in Amanda McConnell's front yard. Six trees – birch, red bud, willow, two giant maples and a serviceberry – crowd a space shorter than the fading hopscotch course scratched on the sidewalk out front. [News Source]

Tories urged to pass climate bill.
Saturday March 31st 2007, 10:00 am

Environmental groups are calling on the Conservative government to show it's serious about climate change by passing a bill that would require Canada to comply with the emissions- cutting targets of the Kyoto Protocol. [News Source]