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]

Air pollution control regs await comments (Saipan Tribune) The Division of Environmental Quality has published the Air Pollution Control Regulations in the Commonwealth Register and is currently waiting for comments. [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]

TurboSonic Announces US$3.25 Million Order for New Pollution Control Technology (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) TurboSonic Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of air pollution control technologies, today announced receipt of a US$3 million new OEM system contract from a US wood products manufacturer. [News Source]

Beijing air pollution ‘as bad as it can get,’ official says (AFP via Yahoo! News) Beijingers were warned to stay indoors on Thursday as pollution levels across the capital hit the top of the scale, despite repeated assurances by the government that air quality was improving. [News Source]

Air quality advisory issued (The Lompoc Record) High winds prompted an air quality advisory by the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District for South Coast communities. [News Source]