No ozone alert today (The Fort Collins Coloradoan) No air pollution advisory is in effect for the Front Range Urban Corridor from El Paso County north to Larimer and Weld counties, including the Fort Collins, Denver-Boulder area, Colorado Springs, and Greeley. [News Source]

Gwinnett aiming to reduce fuel consumption. County government has implemented several initiatives, from allowing employees to utilize alternative work schedules to reducing the number of County vehicles on the road in an effort to effectively reduce fuel costs. [News Source]

Atlanta firm’s experimental plant to turn poop into power. By the end of this year, the $160 million plant that EnerTech Environmental Inc. is building is expected to take hundreds of tons of sewage sludge from local sanitation districts and turn it into pellet-like "e-fuel" that can run small power plants. [News Source]

City and Mirant reach agreement. An historic agreement was reached by the Mirant Community Monitoring Group that just may end the philosophical gridlock between Mirant and Alexandria over the operation of the company's Potomac River Generating Station. [News Source]

Plant fined for air quality violations. The state Department of the Environment has fined an international cement producer for violating federal air quality regulations at its local branch. [News Source]

Task force: wood, if we could. Facing a winter where home heating oil likely will be $4.50 or more per gallon, a task force created by the governor believes the public is ready to start making the switch back to the state's most plentiful homegrown resource - wood. [News Source]

Onset data loggers aid indoor air quality research in test homes across USA. Relative humidity levels are often ignored in homes despite the fact that unsuitable levels can be unhealthy, increase heating and cooling costs, damage building components, and affect comfort levels. [News Source]

Little awareness about increasing indoor air pollution. Not many people are alive to increasing indoor air pollution causing various ailments, particularly in the monsoon season, among housewives who are quite vulnerable to this ‘hidden danger’. [News Source]

Mustafa Kamal launches Green Karachi project. After chopping down thousands of trees in the city in the past couple of years, City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal on Thursday announced that his administration would plants several hundred thousand trees by the end of the year. [News Source]

2.6m more Metro folk by 2020. Around 2.6 million more Filipinos are projected to be added to the already bursting-at-the-seams population of Metro Manila by 2020, according to the latest report released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). [News Source]

Pollution in China is a concern for Olympians. Less than 40 days until the Opening Ceremony, an estimated 600 U.S. Olympians are devising plans to combat pollution as Beijing officials scramble to turn gray haze into blue skies and 550,000 foreign visitors hope for the best. [News Source]