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The study could provide new impetus to regional and Federal pollution control efforts.

Since 1970, however, emissions in the United States and Europe have leveled off due to pollution control efforts.

Ruth Patrick, a pioneer in studying the health of freshwater streams and rivers who laid the scientific groundwork for modern pollution control efforts, died on Monday in Lafayette Hill, Pa.

Therefore, the process does not require pollution control efforts.

But overall, pollution control efforts prior to the Olympics have made the air noticeably better.

Still, it's too early to dismiss China's pollution control efforts, says atmospheric scientist Qi Zhang of the State University of New York at Albany.

The fledgling pollution-control efforts have largely focused on industrial polluters, and government agencies are only starting to look at agricultural wastes like the chemicals that Mr. Zhang believes killed his ducks.

The legislation could have more than a statewide impact, because California has traditionally led the nation in pollution-control efforts.

"It's a learning experience," says Zhang Xuehua, a consultant for the EPA and a former official with the Chengdu Environmental Protection Bureau, who understands firsthand the pitfalls that have plagued China's pollution-control efforts in the past.

China developed a five-year plan to reduce emissions, but the researchers concluded that focusing too narrowly on controlling emissions of pollutants just within Beijing and its suburbs, without also reducing emissions from the entire region, including widespread surrounding rural areas, may limit the potential effectiveness of pollution-control efforts.

The researchers report in a paper in press in Geophysical Research Letters that pollution-control efforts reduced the overall amount of aerosols in the atmosphere by about 10%to15%5%.