Olympics take a healthy bite out of your wallet (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) How are the Beijing Olympics contributing to a worldwide shortage of vitamin C? In their efforts to curb air pollution for the upcoming games, the Chinese shut down manufacturing plants in and around Beijing - including cutbacks at factories producing 80 percent of the world's ascorbic acid, more commonly known as vitamin C. Experts say the shortage and resulting price increases will not likely ... [News Source]

Olympics take a healthy bite out of your wallet (Lexington Herald-Leader) How are the Beijing Olympics contributing to a worldwide shortage of vitamin C? In their efforts to curb air pollution for the upcoming games, the Chinese shut down manufacturing plants in and around Beijing - including cutbacks at factories producing 80 percent of the world's ascorbic acid, more commonly known as vitamin C. Experts say the shortage and resulting price increases will not ... [News Source]

New Jersey must opt-out of ethanol fuel mixture. The truth is, the high cost of food and fuel are directly related. We are diverting more and more of our nation's farm fields to grow corn and soy beans for fuel for our automobiles instead of food for our tables. [News Source]

Expedite coal liquefaction plant. It took just days for radical environmentalists to begin their assault on a proposed coal liquefaction plant in Marshall County, West Virginia. [News Source]

GOP’s wrong about long-term energy solutions. Some Republican members of the Senate seem not to have noticed that the United States is in the throes of an energy crisis that is rooted in its dependence on fossil fuels, especially oil. [News Source]

For a Martinez start-up, fresh air can be big money. If you're worried about the air quality in your home from the omnipresent smoke from California's wildfires, Martinez-based AspenAir has a product that should help you breathe easier. [News Source]

Puyallup police union complaints could doom meth unit. A Puyallup police drug team was called into action only twice last year, but both times it violated safety rules designed to limit officers’ exposure to hazardous chemicals, the local police union contends. [News Source]

Nobody jumps at offer of money to pay for cleaner wood stoves, fireplaces. The director of the Southwest Clean Air Agency is looking for homeowners willing to take $1,500 to $3,000 to replace old wood stoves and fireplaces with cleaner-burning versions, but no one has accepted the offer. [News Source]

Temperatures expected to hit 107 in North Texas today. With temperatures expected to hit a record 107 degrees today in what is becoming one of the hottest North Texas summers on record, officials said the triple-digit temperatures may have already killed four people in Dallas and Fort Worth. [News Source]

Missouri legislators decide to rethink ethanol mandate. Several lawmakers who voted for the ethanol requirement sponsored a bill earlier this year to repeal the biofuels mandate, but the bill did not pass. [News Source]

DNREC caps ash operation. Delaware regulators ordered new controls and cleanup plans for a troubled ash and sludge recycling operation near Wilmington's regional wastewater treatment plant off East 12th Street, the result of a decade of permit violations. [News Source]