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To: russwinter who wrote (58080)	4/12/2006 8:00:55 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 110194

I agree, China should NOT let them go so easily, but I won't hold my breath. Some decision makers in China are wearing the same pair of pants with those polluters. That is why many regulations are on paper only, no law enforcement. That said, things looking brighter since last year. The National Environmental agency has had more power to order the closing of polluting factories. ======================================== "China villagers attack polluting factories: paper Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:54pm ET HONG KONG (Reuters) - About 200 Chinese villagers, angry over pollution of their water supply, attacked three factories and a sewage treatment plant, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Wednesday. The villagers in the eastern province of Fujian, some armed with iron bars, smashed windows and appliances on Saturday at the sewage plant, two leather factories and a South Korean-invested plastics factory, the South China Morning Post said." today.reuters.com ===================================== [My guess is that more likely than not the power provided by these plants are used by the US owned factories/sweatshops in China, and the end user of their product are actually Americans! So whose fault it is?]--Mercury emissions from China coal-fired plants reach US - report 04.11.2006, 09:47 PM BEIJING (AFX) - Mass quantities of air pollutants from China, including mercury discharged from traditional coal-fired power plants, are travelling to places as far away as the US, the Financial Times reported citing an official with a US environment agency. 'That is the most direct impact [of China's pollution] on the United States,' Stephen Johnson, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), told the Financial Times. forbes.com

To: russwinter who wrote (58080)	4/12/2006 8:06:29 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 110194

Red China Earns Green Marks on Earth Day Press Release Source: Pacific Research Institute Wednesday April 12, 6:00 am ET New Report Finds Increased Environmentalism in China SAN FRANCISCO, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- While China has formidable environmental problems, there are unacknowledged signs of improvement, according to the 2006 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, released today by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The Index (available at pacificresearch.com), for more than a decade has provided an annual review of the positive trends occurring in key areas of the environment including climate change, air quality, water quality, toxic chemicals, and biodiversity. ADVERTISEMENT "Nowhere is pessimism about the world's environmental prospects greater than in China," said Dr. Steven F. Hayward, author of the Index, senior fellow at PRI, and F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at AEI. "Although environmental trends in China are serious and deteriorating, some unappreciated signs of improvement are appearing." China's gains can be attributed to a willingness to replicate environmental laws that resemble landmark legislation introduced during the 1970s in the U.S. and Europe. China's State Environmental Protection Administration reports that spending for environmental projects is increasing about 15 percent a year. China has boldly created its own version of the American NEPA (National Environmental Protection Act), requiring construction projects to perform an environmental impact assessment as part of the planning and building permit process. As a result, in 2004 over 320,000 construction projects went through the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) review process. "Environmental review may not meet the standards of either the U.S. EPA or the Sierra Club, but the Chinese have moved a quantum leap forward by embracing Western reforms which recognize that economic growth and markets are the prerequisites to environmental improvement," said Dr. Hayward. "If China responds to its environmental challenges with administrative decentralization and greater use of market mechanisms and property rights, who knows where that might lead?" To download a complimentary copy of this year's Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, please visit www.pacificresearch.org. For a printed copy, please call 415-955-6120. To arrange an interview with author Steven F. Hayward, please contact Susan Martin at 415-955-6120, smartin@pacificresearch.org or Sean McCabe at 703-683-5004 ext. 110, sean@crc4pr.com. About PRI For 27 years, the Pacific Research Institute of Public Policy (PRI) has championed freedom, opportunity, and individual responsibility through free-market policy solutions. PRI is a non-profit, non-partisan organization. About AEI Founded in 1943, the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy's research is dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom, limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense -- through scholarly research, open debate, and publications. biz.yahoo.com