Latest News about Air Pollution and Its Effects

Kudzu Plant: Source Of Ozone Pollution? (Addict 3D)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 11:32 pm

Kudzu, the Southern vine that makes Chia Pets of trees and telephone poles, may have yet another unwelcome characteristic: air pollution. [News Source]

(Full Story) (WIBW-TV Topeka)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 6:10 pm

Kudzu Plant: Source Of Ozone Pollution? (AP) -- Kudzu, the Southern vine that makes Chia Pets of trees and telephone poles, may have yet another unwelcome characteristic: air pollution. [News Source]

CECO Environmental 3rd-Quarter Profit Jumps on Strong Revenue Growth, Shares Rise (Canadian Business)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 12:08 pm

NEW YORK (AP) - Air pollution control and industrial ventilation systems maker CECO Environmental Corp. said Monday its third-quarter profit doubled as a sales surge offset an expense increase. [News Source]

Lija residents call on EU Ombudsman to block Blokrete’s pollution (Malta Today)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 6:49 am

Alternattiva Demokratika – the Green party has organised a petition among Lija residents calling on the European Ombudsman to intervene in the longest environmental campaign ever against air pollution, spreading over the last four decades. [News Source]

News Index (Prince George Citizen Online)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 3:09 am

The People's Action Committee for Healthy Air is calling on the provincial government to take action to improve air quality following the release of results of a new study that estimates the health impact from fine particulate air pollution is greater than previously believed in northern B.C. [News Source]

Lawmakers worry tolls will increase I-81 traffic (The Sentinel)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 2:10 am

Cumberland County state lawmakers say they are concerned that a plan to toll Interstate 80 might divert more tractor-trailers to Interstate 81 and exacerbate the highway’s already troublesome traffic and air pollution problems. [News Source]