“EPA’s latest climate regulation rollback will shift an economic advantage to Chinese appliance makers, according to U.S. refrigeration manufacturers.
President Donald Trump returned to office last year vowing to revive U.S. manufacturing. His administration has imposed costly trade levies, taken a pickax to regulations and worked to expand oil and gas drilling, all in the name of U.S. economic dominance.
Trump promised in a Rose Garden speech last year that his trade policies would ‘supercharge our domestic industrial base’ and ‘pry open foreign markets and break down foreign trade barriers, and ultimately, more production at home will mean stronger competition and lower prices for consumers.’
But last month, the Trump administration rolled back yet another key climate regulation in a way that some U.S. companies said puts them at a market disadvantage. EPA gave grocery stores years more time to switch to buying freezers that aren’t made with a potent set of climate superpollutants — hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). HFCs can be tens of thousands of times more potent in driving warming than carbon dioxide.”
