Friday, June 10, 2022

Why Does “Environmental Justice” Only Matter for U.S. Solar, Not SE Asian?

By Kenneth Rapoza, China Expert/Industry Analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America

This week, White House staffers that were discussing the latest emergency Executive Order to waive tariffs on solar products imported from Southeast Asia often used the phrase “environmental justice” to describe one of the themes behind the move. The White House Fact Sheet of June 6 highlighted the same phrase multiple times. If environmental justice means countries that take the environment into consideration in regard to industrial waste, pollution, and allows for people to have a say in what gets built and where, then the United States is top-notch. Southeast Asia, not so much. [more...]

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