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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (187831)	5/31/2006 5:59:14 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 281500

But what we cannot afford economically is to become involved in a system that rewards companies from re-locating from industrialized economies with ever-restrictive environmental laws, to developing nations where such laws hardly exist at all. No, sure can't do that. So we gotta figure some way to stop outsourcing. Some sort of tax policy or someting. I dunno. China's working on their problem. I stumble across articles like this from time to time... China orders coal-fired power plants to cut emissions The Chinese government has ordered six major power groups to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions from their coal-fired power plants, a move to reduce pollutant discharges. UPDATED: 19:59, May 31, 2006 english.people.com.cn ...trouble is, a lot of their other factories are polluters, too. A few years ago, I watched a caravan of semis hauling an old, polluting pulp mill down the highway to be shipped to China. Shouldn't allow export of factories without requiring retro-fitting of pollution controls.