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]

New Bangalore airport raises more worries (rediff.com) Apart from air pollution, poor infrastructure and a wobbly state administration, Bangalore has a new worry from March - how to leave town and get back to it once the new Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) opens its doors and the existing HAL airport on Airport Road shuts its doors. [News Source]

Tech could reduce coal facilities’ emissions (USA Today) 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 power about 200,000 ... [News Source]

Critics Say New Interchange Will Increase Air Pollution (Cleveland - NewsNet5 via Yahoo! News) Some critics say the new Interstate 90 interchange in Avon will increase vehicle emissions, even though a federal mandate requires air pollution reduction. [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]

LOOKING BACK (Coshocton Tribune) The Coshocton County Commissioners appointed Gerald Kennelly of Mohawk Village to the board of directors at Kno-Ho-Co for 1998. Dec. 26, 1982 Coshocton County was one of 63 counties in the state that could lose federal highway funds and other monies due to a failure to comply with federal air pollution standards. [News Source]

Refinery pollution concern persists (The Argus Leader) Air pollution could soon become a contentious issue in South Dakota, but science has not quite caught up with the questions people will be asking about the proposed oil refinery near Elk Point. Hyperion Resources of Dallas says it is strongly considering a Union County site for its $10 billion "green refinery," which could start up as early as 2014. At a recent forum in Beresford, project leader ... [News Source]