84% of Metro Detroiters commute to work alone in their cars. Record high gas prices are fueling renewed interest in car-pooling, riding the bus and even bicycling to work, area officials say. [News Source]

CARB to discuss equipment regulations in Del Mar (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News) After more than a year and a half of crafting the language that will constitute the new off-road diesel equipment regulations, the California Air Resources Board will meet in Del Mar on May 25 to decide whether to adopt this language. [News Source]

A tale of two builders. One's big, one's little, but both will show off the latest green-construction ideas at Doors Open Toronto next weekend. [News Source]

Can America’s masses get charged on electric cars? The ZAP Xebra is a three-wheeler running on basic batteries, silent and easy to maneuver. It is more than a golf cart and less than a compact car and costs just under $10,000. [News Source]

Commissioners to visit Bowling Green to see wind turbines. While they don't have an official voice in the debate over a proposed wind turbine farm in Union Township, the Champaign County commissioners are getting educated about the issue. [News Source]

Cape Wind firm ‘unlikely’ to win OK for oil-fueled plant. Cape Wind developer Jim Gordon's plan for an oil-fueled power plant in Chelsea "appears unlikely" to be able to get state approval, Massachusetts' top environmental regulator said late yesterday. [News Source]

Mystery Source of Urban Pollution Revealed (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News) A crucial but unknown source of molecules linked with smog has long eluded scientists trying to uncover the origins of air pollution in cities. Now researchers find the grime that builds up on windows, buildings, roads and other urban surfaces might be this mystery source. The findings could help improve bad-air predictions and strategies to fight smog. While grime outside cities is often just ... [News Source]

Lab Twisters Could Reveal Tornado Secrets (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News) Tiny igloos can generate "micro-tornadoes" in the lab, which could allow scientists to better understand the destructive secrets of real-life twisters—and maybe help predict them. The translucent igloos, made of tiny water droplets and plastic balls, are only millimeters across. As these crystalline domes evaporate on Petri dishes—sometimes taking as long as nearly eight days to finish ... [News Source]

So Cal Ed wants to study clean coal plant.

Southern California Edison Thursday asked the California Public Utilities Commission for permission to conduct what it says is the first feasibility study for combining several “clean” coal technologies on a commercial scale.

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Gas company reaches EPA settlement. Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed Thursday to spend $18 million to reduce harmful emissions and conserve natural gas at plants across Utah and Colorado as part of a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency. [News Source]

NY and NJ Port Authority to get serious about global-warming plan. Port Authority Chairman Anthony Coscia yesterday announced the agency would produce a plan in the next two years on how to cut its global warming impact by 80 percent over the coming decades. [News Source]