China, India Unfairly Featured As Only Polluters - EPA Official

[hatrack]

Indeed . . .

SHANGHAI, April 13 (Xinhua) -- All countries should take their due responsibility for pollution without unfairly characterizing China and India as the only polluters, a senior U.S. official said here Thursday.

Steven Johnson, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), made the remarks at the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, in order to correct a report which misquoted him as blaming China for causing mercury depositions in the United States and exerting a "direct impact on the United States."

A report in the Financial Times on April 11 entitled "Toxic Chinese mercury pollution traveling to U.S." quoted Johnson as saying "the EPA had traced high levels of 'mercury deposition' in the U.S. to China and India" and "that is the most direct impact on the United States".

"Unfortunately, I was misquoted and taken out of context, and it's unfair to characterize the pollution coming just from China and India," said Johnson, adding that other countries including the Republic of Korea and the United States all contributed to global air pollution.

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/13/content_4421552.htm

[Oversea Visitor]

1. What an embrassements

Man how many times China need to make US eat crap which they spew out of their mouth.
Come on a bit of brain save all this eating back crap stuff.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. What he said.

Sure, I made a snarky funny. But Oversea Visitor is spot-on correct about it. It can not be denied.

Forgive me, Oversea Visitor. It's just that knowing what we've done (and what's going to happen) is painful. We all have a bad case of gallows humor. It's like watching a tsunami coming in and nobody doing anything about it.

Welcome to DU, too!

--p!

[Oversea Visitor]

3. I still remember

What the Chinese General say about where their nuke was going to be pointed when US threaten them on Taiwan.
It was splash all over the world.

China cannot be bullied. And the way things are going they going to be a very powerful force in the future.
They do not need military
They just use money.

They are visiting lots of country taking out BIG FAT WALLETS and buying lots of stuff and investing in many countries.

And guess what they end up with loads of friends.

US star fading and China star rising.