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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1039796)	11/21/2017 1:51:04 PM
From: zzpat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577586

500 million Chinese don't have safe drinking water because of coal. From Forbes last month. "China has implemented an unprecedented pollution crackdown in recent months as the country shuts down tens of thousands of factories. The effort is part of a national effort to address China's infamous pollution and has affected wide swaths of China's manufacturing sector. In total, it is estimated that 40 percent of all China's factories have been shut down at some point in order to be inspected by environmental bureau officials. As a result of these inspections over 80,000 factories have been hit with fines and criminal offenses as a result of their emissions." <snip> "The crackdown has resulted in everything from hefty fines to jail time for the more egregious violators. This has temporarily stopped production from wide swaths of factories along China's east coast and forced some factory owners to move supply chains to other countries." What we see is Chinese companies being forced to shut down and relocate to other countries so they can pollute their air and water.