Empirical Study on the Relationship between Environmental Pollution and Energy Consumption

In recent years, serious environmental pollution has been one of major constraints of China´s sustainable economy, for the most part, the rapid growth of energy consumption is attributable. In this paper, we firstly use factor analysis method to do evaluation on environmental pollution degrees of China´s 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions (not including Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Tibet) by means of statistics of 2007, and then use regression analysis method to research the relationship between the regional environmental pollution degree and regional energy consumption. The results show that there is a significant positive correlation between them.