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China overtakes US as world's biggest CO2 emitter
China now emits more CO2 than the US in total, but their per person emissions are still 1/3 of ours. We need to clean up our act before we criticize China.
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jun/19/china...
World recorder Haile Gebrselassie rethinks running in the Smog
Officials worry about pollution in Bejing and how it could adversely effect competing athletes
www.theherald.co.uk/features/features/display.va...
Olympic Athletes Wearing Masks Could Cause China to Lose Face
Concerned about the pollution, the U.S. Olympic Committee is distributing a high-tech mask, developed in secrecy, to its more than 600 Olympians. If athletes deploy it, they risk insulting the hosts. Should our athletes care?
online.wsj.com/article/SB121659379072468809.html
British Olympians use red contact lenses in bid to beat Beijing smog
Goalkeeper Beth Storry and her team-mates were affected by hazy conditions as they played on the island of Macau, near Hong Kong which, like Beijing, is blanketed in pollution. The lenses help focus in the smog.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-10394...
Flushing the environment, San Francisco style
Ballot measure would rename waste water treatment plant.
www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/25rename.h...
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