Hawaiian sugar plantation plans ethanol plant. Sugar plantation operator Gay & Robinson plans to invest $80 million to build the first sugar plant in the nation to turn sugar into ethanol. [News Source]

EU warns Brazil over dangers of biofuel. The EU said Brazil must protect farms and forests at home to pry open biofuel markets abroad, seeking to prevent a clean-air campaign from causing land damage. [News Source]

Pollution plan may halt development. Development in Brighouse could be severely restricted if pollution-reducing proposals are passed by Calderdale Council. [News Source]

Foam in Thames, other waterways is traced to RAF Fairford. British Environment Agency officials confirmed Tuesday that RAF Fairford was the source of firefighting foam contaminating area waterways and the River Thames. [News Source]

Explosion: ‘Just waste water’. A tank that exploded in western Norway in May contained only "waste water," according to documents from the company running the tank depot. [News Source]

Sugar Plantation Plans Ethanol Plant (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Sugar plantation operator Gay & Robinson plans to invest $80 million to build the first sugar plant in the nation to turn sugar into ethanol. [News Source]

Air Quality Action Day Forecast for Philadelphia, Lehigh and Susquehanna Valleys (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) The Department of Environmental Protection and its regional air quality partnerships today announced an air quality action day is forecast for Wednesday, July 11, in the Philadelphia region in southeastern Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley in eastern Pennsylvania and south central Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley. [News Source]

Ceco wins $7M in new orders (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) A rolling mill ventilation project in Russia is one of eight new contracts secured by subsidiaries of Ceco Environmental Corp., the company said Tuesday. [News Source]

Move to cut methane emissions by changing cows’ diet. Burping cows and sheep are being targeted by UK scientists to help bring down Britain's soaring levels of greenhouse gas pollution. [News Source]

China’s energy and pollution woes need urgent attention: Wen. China's Premier Wen Jiabao has reiterated that China needs to urgently face the challenges of climate change by curtailing its polluting inefficiencies, a government statement said Tuesday. [News Source]

Australia fights jet-flight guilt over global warming. Australia's tourism authorities Tuesday launched a campaign to fight claims that long-distance air travel is a major cause of global warming. [News Source]