British defy Beijing over masks (Times Online) British Olympic authorities will risk offending their Chinese hosts at the Beijing Games this summer by allowing their athletes to wear masks while competing in order to contain the impact of air pollution. [News Source]

Interior Air Pollution (Metro Pulse) Dear Tom and Ray: I recently had my 1994 Toyota Camry XLE in for a front exhaust leak. The main symptom was a muffled noise coming from the front. After the repair, I still heard the noise, though not as bad. [News Source]

State environmental officials raise more Broadwater concerns (Newsday) State officials have written again to Broadwater Energy, raising concerns about air pollution and destruction of marine life in Long Island Sound during construction and operation of its proposed liquid natural gas terminal. [News Source]

EPA Pressured to Cut Ship Pollution (The San Francisco Examiner) (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) A cargo ship passes under the Golden Gate Bridge in the San Francisco bay as seen from the Marin Headlands, Calif, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008. One of the fastest growing sources of air pollution, huge ocean-going ships that roam the globe pumping out tons of deadly exhaust, faces growing pressure from critics to curtail those diesel emissions and save thousands of lives each ... [News Source]

State health dept. ordered to re-examine gas well pollution (Denver Post) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Colorado's state health department to respond to an air pollution complaint filed by Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action. [News Source]

Air quality only moderate today, health department reports (The Springfield News-Leader) People who are unusually sensitive to air pollution should consider reducing prolonged or heavy exertion today as air quality hits the moderate, or yellow, air quality category, according to the Springfield-Greene County Health Department. [News Source]

EPA: Reconsider gas field air controls (Casper Star-Tribune) DENVER -- An environmental group seeking stricter air-pollution controls on Colorado's growing natural gas industry is praising a federal order it hopes will "ripple through the Rocky Mountain West." [News Source]

Deal preserves clean-fuel rules for public agency fleets (The Press-Enterprise) Regional air pollution regulators and engine manufacturers ended a seven-year legal fight with a deal that preserves clean-fuel rules for school buses, garbage trucks and other fleet vehicles serving public agencies in Southern California, officials announced Tuesday. [News Source]

Deal preserves clean-fuel rules for public agency fleets (The Press-Enterprise) Regional air pollution regulators and engine manufacturers ended a seven-year legal fight with a deal that preserves clean-fuel rules for school buses, garbage trucks and other fleet vehicles serving public agencies in Southern California, officials announced Tuesday. [News Source]