Beijing starts car ban in Olympics clean-air drive (AFP/File via Yahoo! News) Beijing residents enjoyed the novelty of congestion-free streets Sunday as the city launched strict driving curbs to rein its notorious air pollution and traffic for the Olympics. [News Source]

Beijing starts car ban in Olympics clean-air drive (AFP via Yahoo! News) Beijing launched new driving restrictions on Sunday that will ban more than a million cars from its streets in a bid to rein in the city's notorious air pollution and traffic for next month's Olympics. [News Source]

Leave cars at home to cut air pollution (Gulf Daily News) PEOPLE are being urged to leave the car at home more often, to help cut down air pollution. They should buy cars with lower emissions, car-share where possible and walk more often, an environmental expert said last night. [News Source]

Ozone Days Tough On Certain Groups (KDKA Pittsburgh) An ozone action day is bad news for some people. One these days, the elderly, the very young and people with lung problems are especially sensitive to the effects of air pollution. [News Source]

Breathe easy - stay inside. Staying out of the heat may be the only way for some Bay Staters to breathe easy today due to an unhealthy air quality alert, health officials warn. [News Source]

Province provides funding for UNBC bioenergy plant. The provincial government contributed $3.5 million on Friday to a proposed bioenergy plant at UNBC, one of $25 million in announcements the province made in the first wave of projects funded by its clean energy fund. [News Source]

‘Asbestos is a killer’. Calgary Labour leaders are expressing grave concerns about dozens of city roads revealed by the Sun to contain toxic asbestos. [News Source]

Greenpeace hypocritical: mining giant. Mining company Queensland Energy Resources has described as "hypocritical" Greenpeace's decision to send its ship MV Esperanza to Sunday's protest against its proposed oil shale mine in north Queensland. [News Source]

Beijing abandons Mao’s dream of workers’ paradise. In a display of the city's determination to improve its air quality, officials this week vaunted the closure and relocation to the coast of its biggest polluter, the smoke-stacked mini-state of Capital Steel. [News Source]

Coachella Valley was a pioneer in alternative energy. By the mid 1990s, the Coachella Valley and its governmental agencies were practically alone on clean energy and operating a fleet of local government service vehicles on alternative fuels. [News Source]

MVRPC air pollution advisory in effect today. An Air Pollution Advisory remains in effect today for Greene, Clark, Miami and Montgomery counties due to high levels of air pollution brought about by current “dog days of summer” meteorological conditions, authorities said Friday. [News Source]