China creates polluter blacklist (Calcutta News) Four thousand firms have been placed on an air pollution blacklist in China. [News Source]

Ohio Company Agrees to Reduce Hazardous Emissions (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) Perma-Fix of Dayton Inc., an industrial waste processing facility based in Dayton, Ohio, has agreed to implement an air pollution control program that will reduce hazardous air emissions, the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced. [News Source]

CM solution: Cleaner diesel (The Times of India) In a bid to deal with air pollution due to diesel, Delhi Chief Minister sees the shift to diesel with a low sulphur content of 50 ppm as a viable solution. [News Source]

Sandia National Laboratories scientists seek fuel made of air pollution (Albuquerque Tribune) If a new technology from Sandia National Laboratories pans out, the next environmentally friendly fuel could come from a very strange source — air pollution. [News Source]

Sandia National Laboratories scientists seek fuel made of air pollution (Albuquerque Tribune) If a new technology from Sandia National Laboratories pans out, the next environmentally friendly fuel could come from a very strange source — air pollution. [News Source]

NASA satellites may make air quality forecasts possible (New Kerala) Washington, December 14 : NASA satellites may soon provide a system to predict the quality of air, such as global forecasts of air pollution near the ground where it affects human health, say scientists. [News Source]

Specks in air target of plan (Modesto Bee) The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is unveiling a plan for reducing the tiny particles in the air that are considered the most harmful form of air pollution. [News Source]

Air pollution is high all over Malta - Brussels (Times of Malta) One primary source of particulate matter is carbon black from diesel engines. The European Commission said yesterday that data supplied by the Maltese authorities in 2005 shows that EU air quality limits were exceeded throughout the whole island. [News Source]

Indoor air important, too (The Union) The world worries about air pollution, with most of the concern focused on outdoor smog and emissions. [News Source]

Poor air quality prompts Spare the Air alert (San Francisco Chronicle) (12-13) 11:22 PST SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area air quality officials have declared tonight a Spare the Air night and are asking people to cut back on driving and not to burn wood in fireplaces and woodstoves. Air pollution on still winter nights consists mainly... [News Source]

China: Global Giants On Pollution Blacklist (Sin Chew Jit Poh) BEIJING, CHINA: Forty multinationals are among some 4,000 firms on an air pollution blacklist released Thursday (13 Dec). Top companies such as Michelin China, Sina-Mars Group APP in China, the joint ventures of Toyota and Ford, and subsidiaries of Sinopec figure on the list of the China Air Pollution Map ( http://air.ipe.org.cn ), compiled by the Beijing-based non-governmental Institute of ... [News Source]