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Lu Guang

Dust flying off a truck carrying coal and lime coats residents of Wuhai in Inner Mongolia.

Industry rises up from the skyline of the ancient city of Hancheng, a major producer of coal and electricity.

A woman sits on a ledge in one of the severely polluted rivers and ponds in Guangdong Province.

Sheep graze in front of the Shenhua strip mine that transports sand and stones to expand mining in Baiyinhua, Inner Mongolia.

Trucks wait in a long line to be loaded up with coal.

Smoke billows from a coal power plant in Shizuishan, China.

Wuhai Chemical Plant produces PVC, one of the world's most used plastic polymers. The poisonous waste created in the process gets dumped along the coast of the Yellow River, Asia's second-largest river.

Zhang Qiaoliang died of throat cancer a month after this photo was taken, likely a result of contaminated water from factories upstream from where the young couple lived in Xiping county.