Healthy Living Air Summit Held At Holiday Inn Select (KERO 23 Bakersfield) The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is working on cleaning the air by providing a summit, and in July, an entire healthy air week. [News Source]

BLM: Plan would create more air pollution (KTVQ Billings) Associated Press - March 25, 2008 12:45 PM ET LANDER, Wyo. (AP) - U.S. Bureau of Land Management projections show that the agency's preferred plan for allowing new drilling for natural gas in... [News Source]

BLM: Plan would create more air pollution (Wyoming Tribune-Eagle) LANDER (AP) -- U.S. Bureau of Land Management projections show that the agency's preferred plan for allowing new drilling for natural gas in the upper Green River Basin would create more air pollution than new federal air quality standards would allow. [News Source]

NASA to lead large air pollution study (Moldova.org) The U.S. space agency plans the largest airborne study ever conducted of air pollution in the Arctic Circle's atmospheric chemistry and changing climate.Three NASA research aircraft and more than 100 scientists will be based in Fairbanks, Alaska, next month to investigate the arctic haze of air pollution that forms from sources across the Northern Hemisphere.The National Aeronautics and Space ... [News Source]

NASA to lead large air pollution study (UPI) The U.S. space agency plans the largest airborne study ever conducted of air pollution in the Arctic Circle's atmospheric chemistry and changing climate. [News Source]

NASA to Host Media Day During Arctic Airborne Campaign in Alaska (SpaceRef) NASA will host a media day in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Monday, April 14, to provide reporters with a behind-the-scenes view of the largest airborne experiment ever conducted to study the impact of air pollution on the Arctic's atmospheric chemistry and changing climate. [News Source]

Smoking ban leads to drop in indoor air pollution (The Purdue Exponent) A recent study shows a significant drop in air pollution following last year's city-wide smoking ban, raising the issue of Purdue's own possible smoke-free future. [News Source]

Emissions bill won’t happen this year (The Garden Island) Last week, Senate Bill 2526, which would have created a three-year pilot program to determine the level and environmental impact of air pollution caused by bunker-fuel burning cruise vessels docked or moored in Nawiliwili Harbor, was deferred. [News Source]

Drilling plan exceeds new ozone rule (Casper Star-Tribune) LANDER -- The Bureau of Land Management's preferred plan for new natural gas drilling in the Pinedale Anticline would create more air pollution than would be allowed by recently announced federal air quality standards, according to the BLM's own projections. [News Source]

Arctic Pollution’s Surprising History (PollutionOnline) Scientists know that air pollution particles from mid-latitude cities migrate to the Arctic and form an ugly haze, but a new University of Utah study finds surprising evidence that polar explorers saw the same phenomenon as early as 1870 [News Source]

UC San Diego Chemists Find Important Contributor To Smog (PollutionOnline) Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a chemical reaction in the atmosphere above major cities long assumed to be unimportant in urban air pollution is in fact a significant contributor to urban ozone-the main component of smog [News Source]