> “An EPA analysis showed that the Clean Air Act’s benefits outweigh its costs by a factor of 30.”
For Americans. For the Chinese? Probably a different story.
For Americans. For the Chinese? Probably a different story.
It has continually tightened standards and its overall air quality is improving (although it still has notable areas where more improvement is needed)
https://enviliance.com/regions/east-asia/cn/cn-air/cn-air-ac...
https://www.cfr.org/blog/chinas-battle-against-air-pollution...
China, etc is cheaper not only because of the cost of labor but because of lack of environmental protections.
We know now that while these laws have local impacts they clearly also have global impacts and they are not always positive.
Attempting to use the local success of the EPA Clean Air Act to justify a flat 16%+ increase in the price of a widely used and important commodity is inappropriate.