China's growing pollution reaches U.S.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060728/ap_on_sc/trans_pacific_pollution;_ylt=A9FJqZMNW8pExgUAhQIDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhZDhxNDFzBHNlYwNtZW5ld3M-


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The tiny, airborne particles Cliff gathers at an air monitoring station just north of San Francisco drifted over the ocean from coal-fired power plants, smelters, dust storms and diesel trucks in China and other Asian countries.

Researchers say the environmental impact of China's breakneck economic growth is being felt well beyond its borders. They worry that as China consumes more fossil fuels to feed its energy-hungry economy, the U.S. could see a sharp increase in trans-Pacific pollution that could affect human health, worsen air quality and alter climate patterns.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that on certain days nearly 25 percent of the particulate matter in the skies above Los Angeles can be traced to China. Some experts predict China could one day account for a third of all California's air pollution.
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and america keeps on merrily driving, driving and driving

[Ezlivin]

1. Looks like we'll need another wall

Isn't that the Republican solution to everything?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Your cheap McToys and sundry Walmart novelties come

home to roost in your lungs. Welcome to America.

[Jim Warren]

3. Double Whammy

Air borne particulates and the crap we buy from malwart that ends up in the land fills. Matter of fact, malwart is really just a warehouse for our land fills, kinda pre-landfill.

Yeah, lets go shoppin', help the 'conomy.

[cliss]

4. Don't blame the Chinese for this.

They are doing their best to survive. They have a product, and they have found a buyer = junk, trinkets, frivolous garbage & an equally frivolous buyer.

They are our surrogates, making things for pennies which we cannot and will not pay to produce in this country.