These 14,000 factories will either shut down and move overseas or they will split into smaller factories under the 25,000 ton limit.
Exactly. Which means, of course, that the regs will actually INCREASE CO2 production, either because the same material production is done overseas (where environmental regs are less stringent, energy production is less efficient, and energy costs for shipping must be added in) or because the work is done in smaller factories that are less efficient.
You can't even -- truthfully -- call it an "unintended consequence," since the consequence is entirely and rationally predictable. Which just goes to illustrate that the intention of these regs is NOT to improve the environment, but rather to further stateism: to increase the size and power of government.