Air Pollution Health Advisory Issued For Metro (WCCO Minneapolis/St. Paul) The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an air pollution health advisory for the Twin Cities, Rochester and Marshall through Friday morning. More Minnesota News [News Source]

Air pollution officials want more authority (The Spokesman-Review) OLYMPIA – Worried that Spokane’s smoky winter air will again bring the ire of federal regulators, local air pollution officials want more authority to ban woodstove use on unusually smoky days. [News Source]

Air pollution advisory for Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) An air pollution health advisory has been issued for the Twin Cities, Rochester and Marshall through Friday morning because of elevated levels of fine airborne particulates. State pollution control officials said that a thick cloud cover and fog helped the pollutants to build, and could be seen as haze in many areas. The air particulates also accumulated across southern Minnesota as a large mass ... [News Source]

Air Pollution Cuts Rainfall Over Mountains (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News) Air pollution from vehicles, industry and the burning of plant material can choke off the formation of precipitation in some semi-arid mountainous areas, threatening critical water sources, a new study finds. [News Source]

Marshall area under air pollution advisory (WKBT La Crosse) MARSHALL, Minn. The Marshall area of southwestern Minnesota is under an air pollution health advisory. [News Source]

State to monitor air closer to downtown Carlisle (The Sentinel) A year-long air pollution monitoring station in the west end of Carlisle will fill a void in what is known about the area’s air quality, state officials and activists say. [News Source]

Farr Air Pollution Control to Appear on Norman Schwarzkopf’s World Business Review TV Series, March 11, 2007 on CNBC … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) BOCA RATON, Fla.----Multi-Media Productions , Inc. announces the appearance of Farr Air Pollution Control on World Business Review hosted by General Norman Schwarzkopf. [News Source]

FRESNO / Mock nuke blast permit revoked / Bombs would contain radioactive material (San Francisco Chronicle) The San Joaquin Air Pollution Control District landed a blow to the federal government's efforts to test its nuclear weapons arsenal by rescinding its decision to allow the lab to blow up radioactive 350-pound bombs in an open field near Tracy. The... [News Source]

Emissions worries sink lab’s explosives permits (Contra Costa Times) Permits for high explosives tests planned for Livermore Lab's Site 300 were canceled Tuesday by the San Joaquin Air Pollution Control District. In November, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory was given permission to expand testing at the site near Tracy from the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of TNT per year to 8,000 pounds annually and up to 350 pounds in a single day. [News Source]

Group pushes for air pollution measures (Asbury Park Press) New Jersey needs to do more to reduce diesel and fine particle air pollution, especially for the health of those living near high concentrations of the asthma-causing particles, an environmental justice group said Wednesday. [News Source]

The world’s future could lie in what we eat (The Oregonian) Does what you eat affect the environment? You can bet your granola bar it does. An Oregon environmental specialist, Peter Spendelow, will give a presentation March 18 on how food choices affect global warming, water and air pollution, and habitat destruction. [News Source]