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US Air Pollution Tied to Chinese Exports
2014-01-21 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Researchers have published the first study to quantify just how much pollution invading the US West Coast from China is caused by the manufacturing of consumer items headed for places like the United States and Europe. The answer, according to the scientists, should give complainers some pause. "We've outsourced our manufacturing and much of our pollution, but some of it is blowing back across the Pacific to haunt us," said University of California, Irvine earth system scientist Steve Davis,...
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