Pollution drops: SO2 reaches record low across Yellowstone Valley. Air monitors recorded pollution concentrations well below public health limits. And citizen complaints about air pollution and odors last year were rare. [News Source]

Natives hold key to Ontario power. Native leaders are sharply divided over a proposed transmission link that would import electricity from Manitoba to power-hungry Ontario, potentially throwing a wrench into the Harper government's green plan. [News Source]

Blue skies may cost dolphins dear. The last pink dolphins off Hong Kong's coast may be threatened by a US$1 billion (HK$7.8 billion) project to make the skies bluer. [News Source]

Make speed governors a must for heavy vehicles. It has been proposed that New Delhi's government make it mandatory for mass transit and trucks to install speed governors. This would result in minimising road accidents, noise and air pollution, and increase fuel efficiency, according to the industry association. [News Source]

Delhi best city to live in India; 148th in world. New Delhi is the best city to live in among the metros in India and can boast of the highest standard of living in the country according to the worldwide quality of living survey. [News Source]

Valley’s clean-air plans raise dust. Dirt roads, vacant lots, construction sites, heavy industry and farms have been spewing asthma-causing particulates into the air at a rate that federal pollution regulators say is unhealthy for residents. [News Source]

Canadian cities rate high in survey. Vancouver ranked third in a global survey ranking overall quality of life, narrowly losing out to Swiss cities Zurich and Geneva, says a new global survey published today. [News Source]

Vancouver third in global survey quality of life. Vancouver ranked third in a global survey ranking overall quality of life, narrowly losing out to Swiss cities Zurich and Geneva, says a new global survey published today. [News Source]

No place cleaner than Calgary, global survey says. Mercer Human Resource Consulting ranked Calgary No. 1 in the world when measured against 215 other cities on the quality and availability of hospital and medical supplies and levels of air pollution and infectious diseases. [News Source]

60% back green tax to fight pollution. More than three-quarters of Canadians believe the country's environmental regulations are too weak, while nearly 60 per cent would favour a new green tax on consumer and industrial products to crack down on pollution, a new government study has concluded. [News Source]

No place cleaner than Calgary, global survey says Mercer Human Resource Consulting ranked Calgary No. 1 in the world when measured against 215 other cities on the quality and availability of hospital and medical supplies and levels of air pollution and infectious diseases. [News Source]