The Times Union editorial board writes that the way to save the northern forests from acid rain and other "ecological calamities" is for the Environmental Protection Agency to "carefully rewrite the rules for the state-by-state release of pollutants into what is, of course, a single atmosphere."

Reporter Brian Amaral reports that the North Country Regional Economic Development Council co-chairmen say that all but two of the 60 projects being funded are "on the right track."