Posted by: zanshin, 2007-07-03 11:46

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Date: 2007-07-02 (Monday)
China’s State Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) and health ministry asked the World Bank to cut the calculations of premature deaths (750,000 people) from the report “Cost of Pollution in China”, when a draft was finished last year.
-- according to World Bank advisers and Chinese officials.






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