Conectiv wants to ease pollution curbs on Edgemoor coal-fired plant (The Delaware Business Ledger) DNREC’s Air Quality Management Section will hold a public hearing beginning at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26 on a proposed amendment to Delaware’s Air Pollution Regulation for industrial electric generating units. The meeting will be held at DNREC’s Pricilla Building, 156 S. State St. in Dover. [News Source]

Oil drilling proponent mum on trade-offs. Florida's $65 billion a year tourism industry depends on clean beaches and a healthy environment, not oil refineries, storage tanks, oil platforms and pipelines. Our legislators should commit to developing clean alternative sources of energy. [News Source]

Some Neb. bar owners still fuming over smoking ban. Bob Carr, owner of the Bunkhouse Restaurant and Saloon, says he doesn't smoke. Still, he's livid that Nebraska lawmakers have told business owners they can't allow an otherwise legal activity in establishments. "It's not even American," Carr said. "That's not a free country." [News Source]

Engineers hope to clean up air. In a lab on the University of Texas at Tyler campus, Torey Nalbone and his machine analyze the unseen, potentially nasty nanoparticles that can emerge from everyday household and business items and perhaps cause an array of health problems, including cancer. [News Source]

48 Tulsa Transit buses to convert to natural gas. Federal stimulus funds will enable Tulsa Transit to convert a large portion of its fleet from diesel-guzzling buses to more environmentally friendly ones that run on compressed natural gas. [News Source]

City’s sewage to generate electricity. A byproduct of Fayetteville’s sewage will soon become a renewable source of electricity. [News Source]

Auto inspections slump with changes; Automobile emissions inspections are declining across North Carolina amid a two-year effort by the state Division of Motor Vehicles that is intended, eventually, to increase them. DMV officials quietly stopped enforcing inspection rules in November. [News Source]

Villagers seek talks over fumes. The people of Ma'ameer are seeking a meeting with environment chiefs after gagging for days on mystery fumes which they blame on pollution from nearby industries. The problem worsened on Wednesday, causing breathing problems for villagers. [News Source]

Crews damp down at tyre fire site. Firefighters were continuing to deal with the aftermath of a large fire at a tyre storage depot in Nottinghamshire on Sunday morning. [News Source]

Dangers of two-stroke engines. Two-stroke engines commonly used for gardening and boats can cause serious health problems including cancer, from emissions of benzene and other hazardous chemicals, a Griffith University environmental scientist warned. [News Source]

Lawn Mowing: Get Reel, Go Gas-free (Lexington Clipper-Herald) (ARA) - Warm weather arrives with the melodic chipping of songbirds preparing their nests. What? Can't hear them? The steady rumble of lawn mowers not only drowns out nature's melodies, it disturbs wildlife and sleeping neighbors, and is an unhealthy source of summertime air pollution. [News Source]