Landscape your yard to save energy (Carroll County Online) Locating trees and shrubs around your home properly will help to reduce your need for fuel to heat and cool. How much energy is saved depends on your choice of plants ad where you locate them. [News Source]

Federal judge lets fight over auto emission standards go forward (The Providence Journal) Rhode Island is among more than a dozen states whose standards are stricter than those of the Environmental Protection Agency. [News Source]

Federal judge lets fight over auto emission standards go forward (The Providence Journal) PROVIDENCE — A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit seeking to prevent Rhode Island from setting its own standards for carbon dioxide pollution from automobiles can go forward. [News Source]

Mercury in ponds tied to air pollution (Provincetown Banner) New scientific evidence to bolster the unflattering perception of the Cape spit as the “tailpipe of North America” came to light in a recent study of five ponds in Truro and Wellfleet. [News Source]

Beijing ‘meets pollution target’ (BBC News) Blue skies on the last day of the year mean that Beijing has more than met an air pollution target, officials say. [News Source]

Beijing ‘meets pollution target’ (BBC News) Blue skies on the last day of the year mean that Beijing has more than met an air pollution target, officials say. [News Source]

New exit at Avon leads to dispute (The Columbus Dispatch) CLEVELAND (AP) -- A new interchange off I-90 west of the city threatens to increase vehicle emissions in a region already under a federal mandate to reduce air pollution, some critics say. [News Source]

Wind-blown Zaca Fire ash leads to Santa Barbara health warning (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) Wind-blown ash from the summer’s 240,207-acre Zaca wildfire has fouled Santa Barbara skies, leading to health warnings. The strong winds buffeting the region this week sent the ash from the backcountry blaze toward the city on Thursday. The blaze started on July 4 and continued untamed for months in the Los Padres National Forest. The county Public Health Department and Air Pollution Control ... [News Source]

Comment period for new clean air regs extended (Saipan Tribune) The Division of Environmental Quality has published the Air Pollution Control Regulations in the Commonwealth Register and the comment period that was supposed to end Dec. 19 has been extended until Jan. 15, 2008. [News Source]

City to embrace another car-free day (The Jakarta Post) JAKARTA:The city administration will hold a Car Free Day this Sunday as part of efforts to curb air pollution in the city. [News Source]

Tech could reduce coal facilities’ emissions (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News) EDWARDSPORT, Ind. - Coal "gasification" is a technology "that has the ability to take air pollution out of the debate over coal," says John Thompson, director of the Coal Transition Program at the Clean Air Task Force, a Boston-based environmental group. Duke Energy is betting on that idea, and is now awaiting an air permit from Indiana for a $2 billion, 630-megawatt coal plant, large enough to ... [News Source]