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Pollution takes heavy toll on China
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- China is paying a high price for pollution resulting from the country's soaring economic development fueled by low energy costs, an environmental report claims.
The average cost of China's resources output is $320 to $350 a ton and continues to decrease, states the China Green National Accounting Study Report by the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, an arm of the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The document was noted in a China Daily report.
That compares with developed economies, which pay $2,500 to $3,500 a ton.
"This means we are consuming about 10 times more energy than the developed economies for the same amount," Ma Jun, director of China's Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, a non-government organization protection agency, told the newspaper. .......(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2012/02/06/Pollution-takes-heavy-toll-on-China/UPI-54311328532657/?spt=hs&or=er
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Whoever reported that will have his kidneys on e-bay within the hour and so will whomever dindn't disconect the paper's servers! China doesn't have pollution, is that clear? 
Evil American reporting...how dare you hahahahaha. Seriously, they problem is building everything now and with 50 buildings going up in the same time on one block...you will have air quality of that in mines. But don't say it...or you'll read "6 kidneys coming right up"