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July 8, 2013 – China is reaping what it has sown, and that means they must clean up a mess that has penetrated to the far corners of their fairly large country.   Farmers must now pollinate by hand in one region, because all the bees are dead.   Air quality ranges from poor to barely breathable in many Chinese cities.   Now, the government has announced a “work plan” for cleaning up the groundwater in the North China Plains region. Is there a lesson for the United States in this sad state of affairs?   Many of the chemicals polluting the groundwater in this area are extremely persistent, remaining in the environment far longer than just the days and weeks immediately following their release.   Just as in the U.S., where suspicion runs high regarding the oh-so-secret chemical cocktail employed by frackers to release tight oil, suspicions must finally have boiled over in the North China Plains, because a massive government investigation of the groundwater was...