San Francisco plan would make businesses help workers with commuting. Businesses with more than 20 employees working in San Francisco would be required to help their workers commute to work in a new proposal to cut greenhouse emissions. [News Source]

The filthy air conundrum. Beijing is taking drastic measures to improve its air quality in the run-up to the Olympics. But is it possible to conquer air pollution in a short space of time? [News Source]

Living near freeway could harm pregnant women: study. Women who live close to busy, pollution-spewing freeways are more likely than most to have a premature or low-birth-weight baby, concludes a new Canadian study. [News Source]

Burning joss sticks ‘as deadly as traffic fumes or cigarette smoke’. Worship is generally not a life-threatening pursuit. But devotees across Asia could be taking their life into their hands every time they go to a temple to pray, according to a study by a Thai doctor. [News Source]

Why are rats tense? Bad city air. A study out of Ohio State's Medical Center shows that rats get hypertension when exposed over time to airborne pollution. [News Source]

Highways affect newborns’ health. Pregnant women living near highways on the island of Montreal - particularly women from affluent neighbourhoods - are more likely to deliver preterm, low-weight or small babies, researchers say. [News Source]

Business groups fight Ga. coal plant ruling. Georgia business groups are appealing a judge's decision to halt the construction of a power plant, warning that the ruling could stall other energy plants and hamper economic development throughout the state. [News Source]

Poll: 51% of Californians back offshore drilling. A majority of Californians favor more oil drilling off the coast, according to a statewide survey released Wednesday, for the first time since oil prices spiked nearly three decades ago. [News Source]

Judge rules against selling pollution credits to power plants. In a lawsuit brought by the NRDC and other groups, a judge told the air quality district that it could not subsidize plants until it fully reported on the environmental effect under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). [News Source]

EPA to decide on tribal-land power plant. Navajo Nation officials as well as environmentalists are anxiously awaiting a decision on an air permit for a controversial coal-fired power plant to be built on tribal land. [News Source]

Bush pushes oil drilling, but more US fuel exported. The White House Wednesday made a new push for expanded offshore drilling to help lower fuel prices, days after new government data showed American petroleum product exports hit record levels. [News Source]