Still, it was a prescient statement at the time about the growing national concern over auto pollution.

That law directed the Surgeon General to study the relationship between auto pollution and public health.

The Bush approach to auto pollution can be summed up as more of the same.

Both of these new contenders in the fight against auto pollution are emerging as the old one - the battery-powered electric car - is fading.

The haze probably results from pollution, perhaps a combination of industrial and auto pollution.

My neighborhood has already lost almost all of its green space, and now auto pollution will increase, making the air even more deadly.

He then asked Texas regulators last week to tighten state rules on auto pollution.

The air board had been the first in the nation to require catalytic converters to reduce auto pollution, Mr. Magavern said.

Fly ash from incinerators and some auto pollution falls into that range.

"For the planet, cigarette smoking doesn't create a serious problem - auto pollution does."