AFP - Canada will not use public money to buy carbon emission rights on an international market after failing to meet its targets to curb pollution under the Kyoto Protocol, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose said.

AFP - Opposition parties voted to force the Canadian government to implement the Kyoto Protocol and meet emissions reduction targets the government believes are unattainable.

AP - Just whose waste is fouling the most star-studded stretch of the Southern California coast? Los Angeles County officials intend to find out, and if the evidence leads back to the toilets of some of Hollywood's rich and famous, the sewage could really hit the fan. "This is going to get messy," predicts Mark Pestrella, the public works official assigned to the project.

Reuters - Pollution experts have "serious scientific concerns" that newly unveiled U.S. air quality standards may pose risks to human health and welfare, according to a letter made public on Tuesday.

AFP - Environment Minister Rona Ambrose was expected to meet with Canadian car manufacturers to urge them to reduce auto emissions, as part of consultations for new rules to curb air pollution.

AFP - Hong Kong's chronic pollution problem is unlikley to get any better under current government efforts, a media report has said, citing a survey of business and political leaders.

AFP - Air quality in Malaysia's eastern Sarawak state has sank to unhealthy levels with dry wind bringing haze from fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island.