Bay ‘pollution diet’ moves forward. The Chesapeake Bay's new pollution limits are set, and now states are planning the "diets" that they're going to have to follow. [News Source]

Builders, environmentalists split on decision on emissions reductions. While building industry officials hailed a decision by the Southern California Association of Governments setting recommended greenhouse emissions reductions, environmentalists said the association could have done more. [News Source]

State positioned to monitor coal ash. A Minnesota-based environmental group, citing groundwater monitoring reports, wants the federal government to take over regulation of coal ash dumps. [News Source]

Climate change vanishes. One of the inexplicable stories (or non-stories) of the summer is the disappearance of climate change from the political agenda. While many Canadians were sweltering, swatting super-sized mosquitoes, fighting fires, or up to their axles in floodwater, there was nothing but radio silence on the nation's political channel. [News Source]

Preserving our public lands. Public lands provide the clean air, fresh water and scenic beauty that attract new business and build solid communities. [News Source]

Our obsession with private automobiles is unsustainable. Are we driving ourselves into oblivion? Or will new automobile technology save us from the environmental impact of the fossil-fuelled tanks we use to get around? [News Source]

Senate should move on climate change legislation. These days, good-paying industrial jobs need not exact untimely deaths from pollution. In fact, development of clean renewable energy generators – wind turbines, solar cells, biomass – would create and support good industrial jobs in America. [News Source]

SCAG rejects air pollution reduction targets The Southern California Association of Governments on Thursday rejected stronger greenhouse gas emission reduction targets recommended by the state's clean air agency. [News Source]

Hong Kong Air Pollution `Very High’ at All 3 Monitoring Roadside Stations Hong Kong’s Air Pollution Index reached “very high” levels above 100 at all three roadside monitoring stations this morning, the Environmental Protection Department said on its website. It was the seventh consecutive day for the city to have readings at that level, which triggers a government warning that people with heart or respiratory illnesses should avoid prolonged stays in heavy traffic ... [News Source]

Frankton air quality tests clear Air pollution in Frankton does not appear to be a major problem, preliminary results from a short-term sampling programme have shown. read more [News Source]

Port of L.A.’s ‘clean truck’ program prevails in court A federal judge has given the nation's busiest port complex authority to require shipping trucks to reduce air pollution. U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder ruled Thursday that the Port of Los Angeles' Clean Trucks Program can require trucks coming... [News Source]