“BTW, how has California’s strict environment policies helped their climate?”
Interestingly, I have seen in reported here that we are having a hard time increasing the quality of our air because the bad air/ozone whatever actually drifts over from China.
Don’t know if it’s true but we do live on a globe and air does not respect our boundary lines.
That raises another issue concerning pollution standards. We impose restrictions on US plants, but don't require our trading partners to do likewise. That puts US plants at a disadvantage.
Now I remember enough of the good old days to recall all of the sludge dumped into our rivers and smoke poured into the air, and developing the technology to prevent that is fine with me. But if we're going to hold ourselves to that standard, why not our trading partners for the same reasons?
This isn't free trade, it's economic suicide.