China's exports linked to western U.S. air pollution

CNN ^ | Jan 21, 2014 | Elizabeth Landau,

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Because of the United States outsourcing manufacturing to China, the eastern United States saw a decrease in sulfate pollution, but an increase was seen in the western part of the nation.

Average sulfate, carbon monoxide and black carbon concentrations went down by 0.3% to 0.9% when looking at population-weighted averages. But this all comes at a cost: In the western United States and populous Chinese regions, air quality went down.

Over the last decade, China has seen a huge increase in the use of coal-burning power plants, Wuebbles said. Coal use for generating electricity is a big part of why carbon dioxide emissions have nearly doubled their rate of growth worldwide, according to a leaked report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, obtained by CNN.

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And yet, WE have to stop using our fireplaces on “bad air” days.

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America needs industry.

Bring back AMERICAN industry, and American jobs.

Scr*w internationalism. Buy American.