From the New York Times: China Also Exports Pollution to Western U.S., Study Finds
The scientists wrote that “outsourcing production to China does not always relieve consumers in the United States — or for that matter many countries in the Northern Hemisphere — from the environmental impacts of air pollution.”
The movement of air pollutants associated with the production of goods in China for the American market has resulted in a decline in air quality in the Western United States, the scientists wrote, though less manufacturing in the United States does mean cleaner air in the American East.
Pretty sure that the environmental and health-impact analysis of shipping thermal coal through Port Metro Vancouver did not take this into account.
