Air pollution doesn’t increase risk of preeclampsia, early delivery, study finds While pregnant women may worry about the effects of air pollution on their health and that of their developing child, exposure to carbon monoxide and fine particles in the air during pregnancy does not appear to increase the risk of preterm delivery or preeclampsia -- a serious condition that arises only during pregnancy -- according to results of a new study. [News Source]

Smog alert in effect Monday Local government has issued an air pollution advisory warning of ground-level ozone, a breathing irritant, as the heat, humidity and stagnant air have returned to the region. The advisory is in effect Monday for Montgomery, Clark, Greene and Miami counties. [News Source]

Smog alert issued for today and Monday DAYTON - Local government has issued an air pollution advisory warning of ground-level ozone, a breathing irritant, as the heat, humidity and stagnant air have returned to the region. [News Source]

Islamabad air pollution touches dangerous level It seems the Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) is helpless against Islamabad’s sector I-9 industries which are producing pollutants of dangerous proportion. [News Source]

State toxicologist watches chemical pollution . Stu Schmitz has spent 26 years in the environmental field, the last three as the state environmental toxicologist with the Iowa Department of Public Health. [News Source]

We’ll all need a breather, with this air quality dustup. If the federal government thinks the air in Texas is funky, why doesn't it fix the problem by extending a tax credit to every Texan to buy a gas mask? [News Source]

New EPA official shakes up environmental scene. Without refineries, crude oil producers will not have a market for their crude oil. More refined products will need to be imported. Jobs will be lost. Energy prices will soar. The economy of Texas and the nation will be damaged severely. [News Source]

Ethanol industry wants same rubber stamp BP got. Once more, Big Energy is pushing Washington to ram through policy changes without nearly enough study, putting consumers and the environment at risk. [News Source]

Air quality: NGOs blast government’s ‘excuses.’ The fumes emitted by traffic on our crowded roads are visible to all; credible air quality monitoring can only confirm what the public already knows but what our ministers insist on ignoring: that something is fundamentally wrong and that there is a shameless flouting of the law. [News Source]

BP Gulf oil spill: Turtles to be protected from ‘burn boxes.’ BP and the US Coast Guard have agreed to allow wildlife rescuers to pluck sea turtles out of corralled oil patches to keep them from being incinerated alive, thus ending one of the most dramatic – and tragic – consequences of the Gulf oil spill. [News Source]

MA targets polluters’ purses. Determined to collect millions in fines against environmental scofflaws, the state of Massachusetts is suing an accused polluter for more than $300,000, hoping success at trial will convince other major lawbreakers to pay up. [News Source]