There's a hidden cost to buying goods manufactured in China — pollution in western North America.

China has some of the worst smog in the world – impacting the lives of more than a billion people as well as the bottom line for the world’s second biggest economy.

This was the year of "forced transparency" in China, exposing bad debt and bad pollution.

Pollution isn't free … but who should pay?

Some governors asked the EPA to rein in polluting states, and EPA is asking the Supreme Court for permission.

As some American kids get a snow day, some Chinese students are getting a pollution day today.

The coal-fired plants being retired by the Tennessee Valley Authority are more than 50 years old.

China's government policy to promote coal use may have cut life expectancy for millions of people by more than five years on average.

Marketplace's Rob Schmitz tells Kai what it's really like to live in smoggy, hazy Shanghai, masks and all.

In the midst of a national urbanization campaign, more and more young urban professionals in China are quitting their jobs and starting over in the pollution and stress-free environment of rural mountainous Western China.