[MeshugeMikey]

NO,,,AGREEMENTS of any sort re the "environment" until CHINA cleans up its act!!!

[nascarnation]

Time for Gov Moonbeam to start building some really high walls!

[ErnBatavia]

Kalifornia's bureacrats are just as unphockingbelievable as D.C.'s.............only they've been entrenched even longer.

Bullsh*t alert.

[fieldmarshaldj]

We need to outlaw Asia. It’s fur the cheelrdrun.

[21twelve]

They’re just figuring this out now! Where the heck did they think it was going!!?? (China puts a new coal-fired plant on-line every 10 days by the way. And plans to do so for the next 10 years!)

[occamrzr06]

We get First Hand crap from our politicians.

[SamAdams76]

It was said in the heat of the moment. Only time will tell.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've visited China a half dozen times.The first visit was in 1980...the most recent was last year.Even on the clearest day I experienced there the air was almost unbreatheable.The world's prevailing winds,IIRC,do travel from west to east (thus allowing Japan's balloon bombs to reach the western US and western Canada)so it seems possible that some of California's smog is from China.And maybe from Japan and (South) Korea as well.

But mainly from China.

[samtheman]

This is the same country that just signed some global warming deal with our own President Odumbass.

[vpintheak]

It’s been known for a while that Alaska gets a lot of contamination from Russia and China. Probably from Japan too. No surprise California gets it too. I’m sure a lot of west coast states get touched.

[SevenofNine]

Kinda remind me of South Park cartoon on this LOL!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afnJbdT4t5g

[Jim from C-Town]

This is almost certainly BS.

The lower level air pollution would have either been flushed out over the ocean during rain storms in the thousands of miles trip to California or would have dissipated into the higher atmosphere.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“NO,,,AGREEMENTS of any sort re the “environment” until CHINA cleans up its act!!! “

That should be the Republicans mantra.

[immadashell]

They should just pass a bill to ban the emissions. If that doesn't work they should file a complaint with the EPA. If that doesn't work they should ban fracking in North Dakota and Pennsylvania. If that doesn't work they should build a pipeline to Canada and pump all the stuff there. Oh, I forgot odumbo would veto it. Boy are those guys in trouble!

[Last Dakotan]

I have a friend who after she got a graduate degree in Environment Engineering went to work for a large US plumbing fixture manufacturer.

After NAFTA, they built another foundry in Mexico, close to the US border that in every way was identical to their most modern US foundry, except that the section of the plant that had all the emissions control and fume scrubbers was just an empty lot.

Over the past twenty or so years they have been closing US foundries and moving the work to Mexico.

The net result of putting more pollution regulations on US business is that instead of some controls, the world is ending up with none.

[Iron Munro]

Sort of like Arizona, Nevada, Utah and other states get their ‘second-hand smog’ from California?

[GeronL]

Annually Korea and Japan are hit by a yellow cloud from China, it is toxic

[RayChuang88]

Completely correct. The biggest reason why the Kyoto Protocol was rejected by Congress was because it did NOTHING to curb China's serious pollution problems--China has some of the worst air and water quality on Earth and that could result in such gigantic medical costs that China will essential use up its financial reserves taking care of over 10% of Earth's population affected by air and water pollution....

[Amendment10]

I thought that ozone (O3) was unstable and becomes O2 relatively easily. If such is the case, then isn’t O2 being changed into O3 by ultraviolet light at west coast USA? And if such is the case then why blame Asia for O3?

Sorry for non-expert question but wanted to break the ice.

[DoughtyOne]

Other nations in Asia.,.. Yes, lets dump them all in together even though there’s only one massive offender out there. Mustn’t allow anyone to think were xenophobic with regards to the Chinese.

LMAO

[DoughtyOne]

The residents of the San Joaquin Valley have asthma at twice the rate of people in other parts of the state, the university said. Despite considerable improvement in California's notoriously troublesome air, the San Joaquin Valley recently missed a federal deadline for cleaning up its winter air of sooty particulates, a development blamed on warm, dry conditions and stagnant air.

The San Joaquin Valley is farmland. It's also very dusty and has problems that contribute to asthma on a scale that makes it somewhat laughable that smog even second-hand smog is the major factor here. Pollen rates on farmland are high, The plants need to be pollinated to produce.

Once again the Left skews an issue to advance it's cause. In so doing it alienates the thinking person.