Jet Lag Is No Sweat, but Just Try to Beat the Heat and the Smog (New York Times) Air pollution, heat and humidity and time zone changes have been cited as potential factors at the Olympics, which could allow inferior athletes to win a competition. [News Source]

Beijing Readying For Air Pollution D-Day (CBS News) As the Olympics approach, authorities are working feverishly to clear the air. They're closing factory doors, stopping cars - and, if that doesn't work, they'll just shoot down the smog from the sky. Seriously. Barry Petersen reports. [News Source]

MTA To Purchase Only Hybrid Buses (CBS 13 Baltimore) With Maryland subject to some of the worst air pollution in the country, new steps are being taken to clean the air.  Governor Martin O'Malley has declared all new MTA buses to be hybrids. [News Source]

Health data about growing 90-plus population lacking (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Knowledge about human health outgrew the size of a single textbook long ago. Today our understanding of prenatal health alone could fill a small library, from fetal wound healing to the effects of air pollution, X-rays, even methamphetamines on fetal growth. But if you are over the age of 90, the answers are few and far between. The efficacy of dialysis for chronic kidney disease? Unknown. [News Source]

Expert: TVA could move quicker to cap pollution (Knoxville News Sentinel) ASHEVILLE, N.C. - An expert in air pollution control technology says the Tennessee Valley Authority could move far more quickly to reduce emissions from its coal-fired power plants. [News Source]

Bush lifts executive ban on offshore oil drilling. President George W. Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore oil drilling yesterday and challenged Congress to follow suit, aiming to turn the enormous public frustration about gasoline prices into political leverage. [News Source]

China to shut factories to curb pollution. Concerned that Beijing's often polluted air will adversely affect the Olympics, Chinese officials are shutting down factories in the region. [News Source]

China would be unable to fully fix its air quality problem in time for Olympics. A research by a University of Rhode Island (URI) atmospheric chemist has revealed that China would be unable to fully fix its air quality problem in time for Olympics. [News Source]

EU panel loosens draft law on urban-air pollution by trucks. A European Parliament committee loosened a proposed reduction in urban air pollution by truckmakers including Daimler AG and Volvo AB, scaling back a push to prevent deaths from lung illnesses. [News Source]

Incinerator plans due. Plans for a waste incinerator in Sutton Courtenay, UK will be submitted to Vale of White Horse District Council next week. [News Source]

Shower curtains emit toxic potpourri, report warns. That familiar "shower curtain smell" that you whiff when you open a package of the gaily colored vinyl drapes may be hazardous to your health. [News Source]