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Article: Tainted Winds from Asia Foul U.S. Air.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- June 29, 2003
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By Diedtra Henderson, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 29--The revving of China's economy is expected to put refrigerators and air conditioners in Chinese homes, add cars to many a driveway and replace livestock-dragged plows with snazzy gas-propelled tractors.
There's a downside to all that modernization, however: Increasingly polluted ill winds blow from China each spring, dusty gusts that permit industrial pollution to hitchhike thousands of miles and taint America's air.
The Asian pollution wafts across the United States, with traces turning up in mountain ranges like the Rockies. A network of sensors in ...