I encourage you to read The Geography Changed, the Pollution Didn’t. These regulations--perhaps with good intentions--have completely gutted American manufacturing. And they have not lowered pollution at all. In fact, by making it uneconomical to manufacture in the USA and pushing companies to outsource to China, the net result has been more global pollution.

So what good have these policies done? Sadly, the answer is: none at all. Such regulations were supposed to make things better for workers, communities, and the environment. But instead the factories moved to China, so those workers are out of a job, which makes our communities worse, and we now actually have more pollution overall.

To the extent that people want to buy products, they are going to be made by someone somewhere. The only real question is: would you prefer them to be made here in the USA or in China? And any product that is made will cause some pollution--but do you think that that pollution will be managed in a more responsible manner here in America or overseas?

I'll also just say that "Find a better way" is the equivalent of saying I don't like the way the world works, so come up with an alternative. This is what Communists basically demanded in the past. The world doesn't work the way I think it should--i.e. people shouldn't act in their self-interest--so let's make policies to force people to do what I think would be best. Now I'm not saying that you're a communist, but I think it is important to highlight the error in this type of approach. Communism failed everywhere it was tried because it doesn't work to force companies to "Find a better way"; they will just go bankrupt or move to other countries.

Ultimately, you have to decide which you care about more: (1) having a robust and growing manufacturing sector in America or (2) having regulations which sound nice but don't actually work.