We need to cool down the climate change row. Lurid insults and threats from the extremes on both sides of the climate debate wing around the blogosphere – but there must be a way forward. [News Source]

No time to put climate science on ice. The IPCC is as fallible as the human beings that comprise it. But it remains without doubt the best and most solid foundation we have for a community of more than 190 nations to make these most critical current and future global choices. [News Source]

EPA must tighten up controls on smog. The Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to set the ozone standard between 60 and 70 parts per billion is a prescription for a healthier nation and longer lives for future generations. [News Source]

How an underground coal fire erased a town. Half-measures. Complacence. Conspiracy theories. Denial. As Centralia is deleted from Pennsylvania's registers, we can only hope that the name will remain in our minds as a lesson about how creeping, incremental threats can, if ignored, destroy the very ground ground beneath our feet. [News Source]

Some renters want Santa Monica to further restrict smoking. For years, Mike Horelick and Nicolina Karlsson endured the cigarette smoke wafting into their tiny Santa Monica courtyard apartment from a neighbor's patio, even though it aggravated Karlsson's asthma. [News Source]

Smoking for two (or more): New reports link secondhand smoke to heart attacks. It's a well-known fact that smoking is an unhealthy habit. But did you also know that smoking is the most avoidable cause of disease and death? [News Source]

Concord begins final hearings on weapons station plan. Tuesday night marks the first of the final two public hearings on the plan to redevelop the Concord Naval Weapons Station with parks, schools, thousands of homes and millions of square feet of commercial space. [News Source]

Environmental group says mile-long spill into Columbia River is a sign that better regulation is needed. While the relatively small spill likely didn't directly harm fish or wildlife, its probable source is a company that has a long record of running afoul of rules protecting clean air and water. [News Source]

DMR faces air-quality accusations. San Juan County officials have accused Durango Mountain Resort of failing to comply with air-quality measures imposed as part of the resort's development agreement. [News Source]

What’s the price of clean air? New federal ozone standards may improve air quality and public health - at a price. [News Source]

Weather system brings snow, traps pollution. The weather system that brought Friday’s snowfall also helped to trap pollution particles in the air, bringing air quality measurements in St. Cloud into the range deemed unhealthy for the very young, very old and people with heart or lung problems. [News Source]