My Account (Prince George Citizen Online) The province is introducing fines to drivers of high-polluting commercial diesel trucks, an effort to reduce fine particulate air pollution. It moves the program, called AirCare On-Road, from education to enforcement. [News Source]

State AGs, others try to force EPA action after high court ruling (Boston Globe) A year after a divided Supreme Court ruled carbon dioxide from cars is air pollution that can be regulated, attorneys general from more than a dozen states including Connecticut and several environmental groups planned Wednesday to ask an appeals court to force the EPA to act on the decision. [News Source]

Ash landfill proposal dominates hearing (Vernon County Broadcaster) Citizens turned a public hearing about air pollution into one about landfills, Tuesday, in Stoddard. [News Source]

Croll Reynolds Earns ISO-9001; 2000 Certified for Process, Vacuum and Air Pollution Control (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Croll Reynolds Company, Inc., an engineering firm specializing in the research, design, and manufacture of process vacuum systems and air pollution control equipment, has had its manufacturing and quality control systems certified for process vacuum and air pollution control under ISO 9001:2000. [News Source]

NASA Launches Airborne Study of Arctic Atmosphere, Air Pollution (Kansas City InfoZine) This month, NASA begins the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere. The mission is poised to help scientists identify how air pollution contributes to climate changes in the Arctic. [News Source]

Florida attempts to go green (Daytona Beach News-Journal) TALLAHASSEE -- With Gov. Charlie Crist making climate change one of his signature issues, Florida lawmakers are in a high-stakes debate about reducing air pollution and revamping the state's energy laws. [News Source]

Links (EUActiv) In a bid to reduce the transport sector's oil dependency and its contribution to air pollution and climate change, the Commission last February proposed making it compulsory for vehicle manufacturers to cut average emissions from new cars to 130 grammes of CO2 per kilometre through vehicle-technology improvements. [News Source]

Reinbeck company fined by state (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier) REINBECK (AP) --- A company that makes hunting targets must pay a $45,000 fine for violating air pollution control standards at its plant in Reinbeck. [News Source]

More Ozone Alert Days Expected This Year (Environment News Service) SPRINGFIELD, Illinois , April 1, 2008 (ENS) - April 1 is the start of the 2008 ozone season - the time of year that the combination of air pollution and weather could result in exceedances of the federal ozone standard. [News Source]

Suits pending over releases from Channahon facility (Morris Daily Herald) CHANNAHON - A couple of lawsuits are in the works in connection with alleged air pollution by a local chemical manufacturing facility. [News Source]