Pesticide theory hits soft drinks in city. In the wake of Supreme Court direction to Pepsi and Coca Cola companies to respond to a petition seeking direction to aerated drink manufacturers to mandatorily disclose the ingredients in their products that are harmful to customers' health, the super markets, provision stores and cool parlours in city are feeling the heat. [News Source]

Parrot-friendly wind farm plan may still fly. The Bald Hills wind farm proposal that Environment Minister Ian Campbell has agreed to reconsider will be identical - in size and location - to the project he has already scuttled. [News Source]

State to see some money from fine for firm’s oil leak. About $1.9 million has been distributed for environmental projects in South Carolina as the result of pollution fines paid by the Evergreen International steamship line, authorities said. [News Source]

Sharp Park cleanup proposal up for public comment. After years of waiting for a plan to clean up the abandoned Sharp Park Rifle Range on the coastside, the city of Pacifica and San Mateo County now have concerns about a proposal they say may threaten a sensitive area. [News Source]

Pass Assembly Bill 32. By phasing in emissions reductions and creating incentives for new environmental technologies, it can create a model for the nation to emulate. [News Source]

China works hard to resolve energy problems. The soaring economy does create difficult puzzles one after another to the Chinese government. At the moment, energy saving is one of the difficult tests. [News Source]

Time to build a greener set of standards. The challenges facing the construction industry in terms of the environment are immense. [News Source]

Indonesia Suffers Greatest National Toll in Bird Flu Deaths (U.S. Department of State) Indonesia’s Ministry of Health is reporting the country’s 43rd death resulting from infection by the H5N1 avian influenza virus, more than any other country in the world. The death of a 16-year-old boy from West Java Province August 7 becomes the 55th human case in Indonesia. It is the 32nd death in the nation in 2006, and the 43rd since human cases first appeared there in 2005. Vietnam has [News Source]

Richland plans bird flu drills (Wahpeton News) As reported last week, there seems to be no worry about an avian flu outbreak in Richland and Wilkin counties, let alone the United States. [News Source]

China says first case of human bird flu was in 2003. China has announced that its first confirmed human case of bird flu -- a 24-year-old man who later died -- was in November 2003, two years earlier than previously reported. [News Source]

Bird flu virus blueprints go public. Scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control have placed the genetic blueprints of about 40 H5N1 viruses isolated from human bird flu cases in Indonesia into one public access database. [News Source]

Document warns of disasters in public health. Indonesia's 2005 State of the Environment report warns of a looming crisis in public health, health experts and environmentalists say. [News Source]