Vigo County Air Pollution Control will report to Board of Commissioners (Terre Haute Tribune Star) Instead of becoming part of the Vigo County Health Department, a nearly dismantled Vigo County Air Pollution Control Department will report to the Vigo County Board of Commissioners. [News Source]

Current WTWO Conditions 2.0 (WTWO Terre Haute) The Vigo County Council must decide whether to allow the commissioners to sell the air pollution control's office building. The young man arrested for sleeping with an Otter Creek Middle School girl last year will not do time in prison. [News Source]

Talks to examine Great Lakes water quality, China air pollution (The Times of Northwest Indiana) VALPARAISO | Environmental issues affecting communities inNorthwest Indiana and Asian nations will be the subject of twopublic lectures Friday at Valparaiso University. [News Source]

Current WTWO Conditions 2.0 (WTWO Terre Haute) The Vigo County Council must decide whether to allow the commissioners to sell the air pollution control's office building. The state's air monitoring contract with the County expired at the end of 2008. [News Source]

States want delay on emission rules. A growing number of states are urging the Obama administration to slow the rollout of federal rules curbing greenhouse gas emissions, saying it could overwhelm them with paperwork, delay projects and undercut their own efforts to fight climate change. [News Source]

You can thank him for energy savings. When octogenarian Arthur H. Rosenfeld vacates his utilitarian office at the California Energy Commission this week, one of his final tasks might seem of little consequence: He'll turn off the lights. [News Source]

World warming to greener train travel. Faced with global climate change, many around the globe have warmed to train travel. Traveling by rail is on average three to 10 times less CO2-intensive compared to road or air transport, according to the UIC, a Paris-based international organization of the railway sector. [News Source]

Budget cuts take an environmental toll. Severe state environmental budget cuts will hit home this summer with expected staff cuts at parks and campgrounds, but they will probably also take a toll in less visible areas such as water and air protection, recycling efforts, and the policing of environmental crimes. [News Source]

Teaching green, beyond recycling. At the Green School in Brooklyn, the students are encouraged to delve into local issues that may affect them and their families, like contamination in waterways like the Gowanus Canal, water quality, or the razing of low-scale housing. [News Source]

Mich.’s biomass rush sparks air quality, forest depletion worries. A rush to meet new requirements for renewable energy has spurred plans for wood-burning power plants in Northern Michigan, but critics argue that a surge in wood-based generation could deplete the state’s forests and generate hazardous air pollution. [News Source]

Biomass foes aided by owner of Lucas Oil. Forrest Lucas, the millionaire owner of Lucas Oil Co., has joined forces with a grass-roots Crawford County movement seeking to stop a planned wood-burning power plant in Milltown. [News Source]