{"id":23245,"date":"2010-12-03T16:20:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T16:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_california_pollution_made_in_china\/"},"modified":"2010-12-03T16:20:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T16:20:37","slug":"wsj_california_pollution_made_in_china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23245","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) California Pollution: Made in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long known that pollution and dust from China travels over the Pacific to the western United States. What they haven\u2019t been able to figure out is how much. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in the latest issue of the scholarly journal Environmental Science and Technology and picked up by Chemical &#038; Engineering News, a team of geochemists announced that they have developed a method for tracing fine airborne particulate pollution (also known as PM2.5 because the particles are less than 2.5 microns wide) with origins in East Asia by testing for a specific lead isotope, 208Pb, found in greater concentrations in coal and metal ores from the region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2010\/12\/01\/california-pollution-made-in-china\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long known that pollution and dust from China travels over the Pacific to the western United States. What they haven\u2019t been able to figure out is how much. Until now. In a paper published in the latest issue<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23245\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,502,589,149,140,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-china","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}