Company says well field cleanup making progress. Twenty years have passed since Union Carbide began monitoring a well field just south of the Reich Farm Superfund site. [News Source]

Growing greener in Roanoke and Blacksburg. As communities around the country embrace the concept of going "green," many are also realizing that they cannot do it alone. Governments may recognize municipal boundaries, but carbon emissions do not. [News Source]

Taking dumpster diving to a whole new level. It strikes me as somewhat suspicious that Waste Management (WM) starts talking about the possibility of a power-generating incinerator as an alternative to expanding the Carp Road landfill just in time to share the spotlight with Rod Bryden's Plasco Energy venture. [News Source]

LNG can’t R.I.P. The defeat this week of a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant off the Southern California coast is not a victory for saner energy policy. [News Source]

Study: Smoking ban benefits pub workers. Irish pub workers are healthier and exposed to far fewer cancer-causing substances because of the three-year-old ban on smoking in work places. [News Source]

Alliance pushes public transit for Earth Day. The Peninsula Traffic Congestion Relief Alliance and SamTrans are encouraging the public to gear up for Earth Day and increase the number of public transportation users. [News Source]

Bill proposes 2.5-cent state subsidy for ethanol blend. Gasoline blended with ethanol would get a 2.5-cents-per-gallon state subsidy in nine East Tennessee counties under legislation scheduled for a vote this week in committees of the House and Senate. [News Source]

Meet on clean fuel shift for autos. Representatives of a Delhi-based company came calling at Writers’ Buildings last week to discuss with senior transport department officials the conversion of diesel autorickshaws to LPG in the city. [News Source]

China’s Yangtze River extensively polluted. China's Three Gorges Dam reservoir has been fouled by pesticides, fertilizers and sewage, and more than 600 kilometres of the Yangtze river are critically polluted. [News Source]

Imported food rarely inspected. Just 1.3% of imported fish, vegetables, fruit and other foods are inspected — yet those government inspections regularly reveal food unfit for human consumption. [News Source]

Tribe’s school buses use biodiesel. The school system on the Cherokee Indian Reservation is the only one in North Carolina running all of its buses on biodiesel, tribal officials say, and they hope other school systems will follow their lead. [News Source]