Taking aim at all those plastic bags.

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

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Doctors warn air quality in Utah has reached crisis levels. 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]

GJ City Council gasps for more air monitoring on Western Slope. 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]

No idle threat: LaMattina wants to target tour buses. 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]

Freshwater otters called upon to save seas. 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]

Doctors Warn Air Quality in Utah has Reached Crisis Levels (KIFI) 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.

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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Ethanol investments won’t do much to cut greenhouse gas emissions: report. The federal government’s massive investments in biofuels will be of little benefit in cutting dependence on fossil fuels or reducing greenhouse emissions, suggests a study by the Library of Parliament. [News Source]

Governor says coal pollutant testing getting Ohio attention. Ohio's planned testing of a new way to get rid of pollutants in Ohio's high-sulfur coal is attracting interest from potential new businesses and hopefully will help the state's coal industry. [News Source]

Sarasota considers green plan. Sarasota could join hundreds of cities in a national movement to slow the effects of global warming, one municipality at a time. [News Source]

Tories urged to pass climate bill. 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]