GREENSPACE: Olympic Games offer air pollution experiment (Los Angeles Times) By Geoffrey Mohan A brief pollution hiatus in Beijing has opened a window of opportunity to study the effects of curtailing emissions on global warming. [News Source]

Uganda: can we survive climate change?. Ugandans should know that environmental degradation which is happening at an alarming rate in the country is increasing our vulnerability to climate change hazards. [News Source]

Goodrich and IDEM. A proposal from BFGoodrich seeking a permit to increase the amount of pollution once again raises questions about the willingness of the leadership at the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to do its job. [News Source]

What’s the deal with offshore drilling? John McCain is talking a lot about opening up new areas to offshore drilling, and now Barack Obama appears willing to consider the idea, too. [News Source]

Ethanol rules are all about politics. Few government programs have had more unintended and damaging consequences than subsidies for corn-based ethanol and mandates for its use as a motor fuel. [News Source]

How bad a threat? The hardest reality about environmental regulation is that it follows human health damage wrought by exposure to insufficiently studied toxic substances. Only rarely does regulation get ahead of such damage. [News Source]

Air panel reviewing battle to cut ozone. Speeding to meet a September deadline, the Regional Air Quality Council began its review Monday of a final draft plan to cut ozone pollution along the Front Range. [News Source]

Coal-to-liquid plant in Wyoming raises dust concern. As proposed,the plant would emit 195 tons of "particulate matter," or dust, each year, 85 percent of the plant's allowable limit. [News Source]

Expert says Pinellas school near raytheon has safe air. The air is safe at a St. Petersburg elementary school on the fringe of a groundwater pollution plume that originated on the site of a Raytheon defense plant, according to air quality tests conducted for the Pinellas County School District and Raytheon. [News Source]

Tests indicate school on fringe of Raytheon zone is safe. Azelea Elementary School is on the fringe of a groundwater pollution plume that originated on the site of a Raytheon defense plant at least 17 years ago, before Raytheon owned the property. [News Source]

Controlled burns could face new limits from federal rules. Tighter new federal air pollution rules have led to concern that controlled burns may face new limits even as statewide support for them increases. [News Source]