Air Pollution In 4 Counties Prompts Advisory For Monday (KTHV Little Rock) An Arkansas governmental agency has issued an advisory for tomorrow in four Arkansas counties because of air pollution. The Ozone Action advisory was issued for Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski and Saline counties. [News Source]

Air Pollution In 4 Counties Prompts Advisory For Monday (KTHV Little Rock) An Arkansas governmental agency has issued an advisory for tomorrow in four Arkansas counties because of air pollution. The Ozone Action advisory was issued for Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski and Saline counties. [News Source]

Why you should care about ozone warnings. Good and bad ozone have identical chemical compositions, they are gaseous molecules composed of three oxygen atoms. Depending on where ozone occurs in the atmosphere, ozone can serve as a UV filter or act as a pollutant that damages human health and crops. [News Source]

Smog over Beijing is asthma waiting to happen. Saturday night at 7:30 we got one of our first looks at just how bad the air in Beijing is going to be. [News Source]

Will environment survive Bush legacy? The Bush administration is almost history. The environmentalists among us were on the verge of conjuring mental images of the administration heading off into the environmental netherworld. [News Source]

Our own Olympian smog. While critics are bashing China for the staggering levels of air pollution at the summer Olympics in Beijing, a new report reminds us that pollution is not just a Chinese problem but a critical one here in Canada. [News Source]

Leaders pledge Lake Tahoe restoration will go on. Sustaining the momentum established in 1997 was a major theme of the 12th annual Lake Tahoe Summit on Saturday. [News Source]

Stricter wood-burning rules sought. New clean air rules would put tighter restrictions on Northern San Joaquin Valley, CA residents who like to stoke their fireplaces during colder months. [News Source]

Dangerously high smog levels recorded around Puget Sound. The Puget Sound's reputation for clean air may have been sullied Saturday when a smog-monitoring station recorded an excess of ozone. [News Source]

Feds OK $54 million for Lake Tahoe. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Saturday she will seek an extension of a decade-old program to preserve Lake Tahoe's cobalt blue waters, while Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne authorized another $54 million in funding for conservation projects. [News Source]

EPA to hold meeting on Hauppauge Superfund site cleanup. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is holding a public information meeting this week on continuing cleanup of a federal Superfund site in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. [News Source]