Yes,thanks to hundreds of thousands of pages of anti-business and pro union regulations and the EPA, the U.S. manufactures very little.And even that is going away.
Perhaps you're just too young to remember how filthy the air and rivers were, back in the days before the EPA.
For all the EPA's over-reach today, one need only look at what China's polluting industries are doing to the land and people, to understand that environmental protection isn't all bad.