New Jersey restaurants cooking up pollution along with pizza and hamburgers. When fast-food restaurants cook up cholesterol-heavy foods, they spew cholesterol and other particulates into the air, pollution that can affect the health of people with asthma and other breathing issues, researchers say. [News Source]

Activists say local approach needed for climate change. VPR's Nina Keck attended a forum in northern Europe on the economic impact of climate change. She reports that, while the shortcomings of Copenhagen may have grabbed the headlines, the real story may be what's happening at the state and local levels. [News Source]

Parents fume as sick list grows over controversial school heaters. Children have become seriously ill from exposure to unflued gas heaters in Australia schools, contrary to the assurances of the state Education Department. [News Source]

Portsmouth schools eye plan to improve air quality. It's not easy being green, but that's the goal of city schools as they aim to be part of the NH Healthy Schools Program, a grant program of the NH Partners for Healthy Schools. [News Source]

Pollution sleuth inspired by the smog of her native Pasadena. Rutgers University chemist Monica Mazurek turned a childhood irritant into the focus of her research. She has spent the past decade studying air pollution in the NY metro region after growing up in what she calls the nation's smog capital. [News Source]

Bills to restrict tanning heat up health debate. The desire to look tan is reviving an annual debate in South Dakota over cancer risks, free enterprise and personal responsibility. [News Source]

Railroad Commission won’t issue drilling moratorium. The chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas ruled out a moratorium on natural gas drilling in Texas due to pollution concerns, calling the move proposed by a North Texas state representative a "drastic overreaction." [News Source]

Young lives up in smoke. Whether they choose to light up their first cigarette on their own or are unwitting victims of passive smoking, Filipino youth are increasingly at risk from tobacco exposure. [News Source]

Climate changes are proven fact. It is easy to lose track of the compelling strands of scientific evidence that have led almost all climate scientists to conclude that mankind is altering climate in potentially dangerous ways. A few essential points are undisputed among climate scientists. [News Source]

Govt should promote bicycles to preserve environment. If Uganda should be counted among the countries that are trying address the effects of global warming, the government should promote the use of bicycles as environmentally-friendly transport. [News Source]

Biomass: Blowin’ smoke and clouds of emotion. I have had the opportunity to go one-on-one with the opponents and the proponents of the Adage Biomass Power Plant and thus far we haven't actually addressed the core question. Is this power plant a good deal for Gadsden County? [News Source]