China invests in $175 Billion Environmental clean up

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Air, water, waste, and soil erosion clean up efforts get major funding in China

<place w:st="on" /><country-region w:st="on" />China</country-region /></place /> announced an unprecedented investment in <a title="Treeghugger report on China investment of $175 Billion" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/china_to_invest_1.php#comments" target="_blank">their environment last week</a>.  $175 billion dollars will be spent on clean air initiatives, water pollution, waste disposal, and soil erosion efforts.  As Treehugger points out, this effort is to be applauded, but the sustainability factor is still in question.  In the end, you can’t just throw money at problems, but countries around the world need to focus on behaviors, especially those belonging to big businesses.  by Erin Swanson <a href="mailto:ESwanson@enviance.com">ESwanson@enviance.com</a> 9 application/xml false environment environmental China invests in $175 Billion Environmental clean up Air, water, waste, and soil erosion efforts get major money http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/china_to_invest_1.php#comments Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 eswanson false true false false true 205814 false false true false false false true 107527 blog blogsite/Enviance/web