Erosion: drive to increase corn acres could damage soil. Plowing trees and native grasses on land held in conservation to plant more corn will reverse decades of work to prevent crop-related pollution, scientists say. [News Source]

Biofuel plants generate new air, water, soil problems for Iowa. Iowa's ramped-up ethanol and biodiesel fuel production led to 394 instances over the past six years in which the plants fouled the air, water or land or violated regulations meant to protect the health of Iowans and their environment. [News Source]

Water quality: wastewater often pollutes rivers. Eleven biofuels plants have been cited by the state Department of Natural Resources for wastewater violations that include polluting streams based on permit limits under the federal Clean Water Act, according to the Register's analysis of state records for 34 plants in operation during six years. [News Source]

State’s residential CO2 emissions among nation’s highest. While Connecticut fights to implement tighter emissions standards for cars, new data suggests the state may have a larger problem with carbon dioxide emissions from homes. [News Source]

Bush climate plan called all talk, no action. Bush says he will convene meetings with as many as 15 nations beginning this fall, with a goal of producing an emissions-reduction plan by the end of 2008, but environmental groups dismissed the move as a ploy to avoid tougher actions that other nations favor. [News Source]

India to resist Bush pressure on global warming. India, one of the world's top polluters, will not accept equal responsibility to cut emissions and combat climate change despite U.S. President George W. Bush's proposal for a deal among top emitters, officials said on Sunday. [News Source]

Blame coal: Texas leads carbon emissions (AP via Yahoo! News) America may spew more greenhouse gases than any other country, but some states are astonishingly more prolific polluters than others — and it's not always the ones you might expect. [News Source]

Smoking fathers’ sperm may transmit genetic damage to offsprings.

While smoking is known to cause cancer, Canadian researchers have now found that fathers who smoke may transmit genetic damage to their children.

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Outdoor air may be dirty, but indoor air can be worse. The air inside your home can be two to five times as polluted as the air outside, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. [News Source]

Despite efforts, clean air elusive. Smoggy, sooty, unhealthy air returned to settle over the Washington area this week, setting off Code Orange pollution alerts and signaling that -- even after decades of cleanup efforts -- summertime here can still mean irritants in every breath. [News Source]

B.C. 2050: What climate change will do to our province. Over the past few weeks, a Vancouver Sun team has been sifting through interviews, scientific journals, government reports and private sector studies, asking how our province will be transformed in the coming decades by climate change. [News Source]