Huntsman looks for clarification of EPA’s bad air report for Utah. Utah Governor John Huntsman Jr. said he knows Utah’s air quality needs work, but he’s not ready to swallow the federal government’ bad air report card. [News Source]

Braving the political winds. EPA official Robbie Roberts took a stand against unbridled energy development. [News Source]

Desert Rock permit appealed. A coalition of Navajo and conservation groups has filed an appeal of a recently released Environmental Protection Agency permit, which granted approval to the contentious power plant. [News Source]

Commissioners vote to help deal with air-polluting cars. Denton County commissioners this week voted to spend $1 million to clean up the air in the county. [News Source]

Program to reduce toxic air makes gains. Three years into the city's air control program, seven of Louisville's 37 larger industrial plants are scrambling to show they don't pose a significant risk to their neighbors' health or explain why they can't meet a year-end deadline to do so. [News Source]

EPA: Too much soot in the QCA. With the Olympics in the headlines all this month, you've heard a lot about p [News Source]

Help sought on contaminated water. A group fighting for the timely cleanup of a contaminated ground water plume in the vicinity of the Behr Dayton Thermal Plant asked the Dayton City Commission to take a lead in the effort. [News Source]

Increases in cancer not found near plant. No unusual numbers of cancers have been detected in a study of residents near the Delphi Home Avenue plant, the site of contamination by hazardous chemicals that seeped off site and entered area homes, the Ohio Department of Health said Wednesday. [News Source]

Muskegon passes soot test — Ottawa, Kent counties don’t. Kent and Ottawa counties violate new, stricter federal guidelines for the kind of air pollution that contributes to asthma attacks, heart problems and other illnesses, the U.S. EPA announced Tuesday. [News Source]

Michigan makes air pollutant list. EPA says Metro Detroit counties are among nine that are violating soot emissions standards. [News Source]

EPA cites 6 counties for fine-particle pollution. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday designated six Wisconsin counties, for the first time ever, as violating federal standards for fine-particle pollution. [News Source]