Harper’s anti-smog plan blowing smoke, critics say. Prime Minister Harper will impose anti-smog regulations in a new Clean Air Act to be introduced next week, but critics say he is doing little about greenhouse gas emissions while duplicating existing regulations. [News Source]

Senator says warming by humans just a hoax. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., has argued repeatedly that the idea that humans are warming the climate is a hoax. [News Source]

Home wind turbines turn fashionable in Britain. About 80,000 homes in Britain are producing electricity with small renewable power generation units such as turbines. [News Source]

PM plans ‘intensity’ alternative to Kyoto. Prime Minister Harper said that greenhouse-gas targets in the new environmental policy will be “intensity-based,” a system that effectively scuttles Canada's commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. [News Source]

Dust may dampen hurricane fury. After more than a dozen hurricanes battered the Atlantic Ocean last year, scientists are wondering what - if anything - might be causing stronger and more frequent storms. [News Source]

New diesel a clear winner. Starting Sunday, most diesel pumps across the nation will flow with fuel that is dramatically cleaner, the first step in a decades-long effort to curb air pollution that can trigger asthma attacks, cause cancer and take years off lives. [News Source]

Wind power comes blowing into Dublin. New River Community College is launching a program to train people to work on wind-power turbines in response to growing interest in the technology. [News Source]

Global Warming Seen Pushing up Insurance Costs (Planet Ark) WASHINGTON - Global warming will push up insurance premiums in high-risk areas like coastal Florida and other hurricane-prone parts of the United States, an insurance company official said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Global Warming Concern Unites Groups (San Diego Business Journal) Four San Diego institutions have announced a partnership to increase awareness of global warming and the impacts it could have on the local climate. Events begin with a lecture at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at the San Diego Natural History Museum. [News Source]

Global Warming Concern Unites Groups (San Diego Business Journal) Four San Diego institutions have announced a partnership to increase awareness of global warming and the impacts it could have on the local climate. Events begin with a lecture at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at the San Diego Natural History Museum. [News Source]

US Senator Dianne Feinstein to Announce Legislative Agenda to Combat Global Warming (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance) Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will speak with Town Hall Los Angeles on October 25, 2006, at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. Her address, "Global Warming: A Time to Act," details initiatives to combat the effects of global warming while keeping the US economy strong. [News Source]