China's Coal Pollution Impacts the USA

It has been stated that we can buy all the Prius's and hybrids we want, the benefit of that lowering of emissions is more than offset by China's burning of coal. We will still come out below our desired goals.

China will in the future burn more and more coal. More coal based energy plants go on line in China weekly.

Now here we are seeing the result as coal based pollution from China rains down on the US. The health and quality of life factors will soon follow.

Yahoo: Scientists fear impact of Asian pollutants on U.S.

From 500 miles in space, satellites track brown clouds of dust, soot and other toxic pollutants from China and elsewhere in Asia as they stream across the Pacific and take dead aim at the western U.S.

By some estimates more than 10 billion pounds of airborne pollutants from Asia — ranging from soot to mercury to carbon dioxide to ozone — reach the U.S. annually. The problem is only expected to worsen: Some Chinese officials have warned that pollution in their country could quadruple in the next 15 years