heavy metals pollute the soil in China

A news story today:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626304579507...

China Details Vast Extent of Soil Pollution

About a Fifth of Nation's Arable Land Is Contaminated With Heavy Metals

"The extent of China's soil pollution, long guarded as a state secret, was laid out in an official report that confirmed deep-seated fears about contaminated farmland and the viability of the country's food supply.

Nearly one-fifth of the country's arable land is polluted, officials said in the report, shedding unexpected light on the scale of the problem—a legacy of China's three decades of breakneck economic growth and industrial expansion.

The most common inorganic pollutants found in China's soil were the heavy metals cadmium, nickel and arsenic, according to Thursday's report. Cadmium and arsenic, both known to cause chronic health problems, are byproducts of mining."

The lesson we should all learn: we need government regulation to protect the environment: the soil that our crops grow in, the water that we fish, the air that we breathe. It's time for the United States to tighten regulations that were loosened when the Halliburton Loophole was put into law, that exempts the gas industry from regulation by the Safe Drinking Water Act. Failure to do that will mean more cadmium-laced rice in Hunan, more MCHM in Charleston drinking water, more trihalomethanes in the Monongahela, more oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2014/04/grim-ph...

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Permalink Reply by Mike Fulper on April 25, 2014 at 11:40am

to "educate" you on the "green" BS....

and to find "where" it comes from....!!

do the following...

GOOGLE... Mikail Gorbechev...."green cross"

Wikepedia tells it all

All of the Green BS comes from the UN EDICT implemented by the Communists...

Gorbachev's "Green Cross"...is illegally imposed on the US.. to control

our resources.....

And they REALLY want to STOP all of our OIL AND GAS business....

Ie.. Ukraine...

any way.. not one person on this board... has been "aware" of

where all the "go green"  crap comes from....till now...

Read it and weep....:)

By the way.. Gorby lives TAX FREE.. and FREE OF US LAWS....

at the Presidio. in CA...

thanks to Pelosi and congress who gave it to THE UN....!!

and allows Gorby to live there....

and GORBY is the Leader of the Communist movement in the US....

Putin was a clerk in the KGB..... Gorbechev leads the Communist world...

Preaches his "Go Green" BS at all of the Universities in the US...

Since Reagan allowed him "into" the US......:(

EPA is a UN illegal entiety.... NOT Constitutionally formed....

Permalink Reply by Mark McGrail on April 22, 2014 at 11:17pm

Mike,

The extreme environmentalists complain that shale development pollutes the land, water and air. Yet there is no proof of this.

On the other hand the cars they drive and the homes that they heat, and the electricity they use cause significant "toxic" emissions; far  more than shale development.

Spills from tanker truck accidents result in the dumping of  gasoline causing far more water and land pollution than shale development. Do you see them calling for an end to automobile use ? Do you see them giving up their cars or living without heat or electricity in their homes ? Hypocrites, all of them.

Let's cut to the chase. these environmental whakos cannot be honest and admit their true agenda.This is all about the promotion of alternative energy, and as long as fossil fuel (NG and oil) is inexpensive no alternative is economically viable. So the only way these extremists can reach their goal is to prevent the development of more sources of inexpensive, abundant fossil fuels.

The environmental left is dishonest. It cannot have an honest discussion about shale development.

We all breathe air, we all use water, and we all enjoy unpolluted land. So we who support shale development are environmentalists we just believe that shale development and environmentalism are not incompatible. We are honest in the expression of that belief, the environmental left is not honest in expressing it's true motives.

Permalink Reply by Rich on April 23, 2014 at 7:06am
Have any of you people who comment about china ever been there? Let me tell you they have NO DEP!!! So this is why they have problems!! So you are comparing apples to oranges!! Wise up folks!!

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