Mr Garson said the commission carried out hundreds of forest operations and harvested about 700, 000 tonnes of timber every year, but this was the first pollution incident resulting from harvesting operations for more than 10 years.
The country's first national census of pollution sources is due to begin in February.
For many years, economists have observed that as agrarian societies industrialised, pollution increased at first, but as the societies grew wealthier it declined again.
NPR's Howard Berkes joins us from Beijing to set the Olympic scene for us, and Howard, let's start first with a question of pollution.
His first idea is to look for pollution in the atmospheres of promising planets.
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He took historic action -- his administration did -- to confront climate change, including proposing the first national standard for harmful carbon pollution for new power plants, as well as establishing unprecedented standards for cars and trucks that will slash emissions of carbon pollution while, at the same time, saving consumers billions of dollars.
The BBC understands that it also believes the European Commission is partly to blame because it did not set proper limits on pollution from diesel exhausts in the first place.
This was used to compare exposure to pollution, in the womb and during the first year of life, in 279 children with autism and 245 without.
But his proposals to import more mainland high-tech talent and coordinate with Guangdong province on combating cross-border pollution and developing the Pearl River delta are important first steps.
Together, these researchers have found a way to measure the amount of light pollution around using satellite data, thereby creating the world's first atlas of light and darkness.
But the county Board of Supervisors has rejected Piscitell's first proposal, arguing that the additional traffic would create unacceptable noise and air pollution and hamstring the county's ability to develop nearby land.
The study tried to evaluate air pollution exposure where the women lived while pregnant and where their children lived in their first year, comparing children with autism and children without.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency launched an investigation into the first spill, but has since said it had been unable to trace the source of the pollution and confirmed it had closed the investigation.
Scientists have known for a long time that aerosols cool climate by reflecting sunlight and making clouds brighter, but the new study is the first to use a global model to estimate the net effects on plant carbon intake resulting from this type of atmospheric pollution.
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