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Re:Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws by TYPE_FASTER on Thursday June 04, 2020 @07:54PM (#23423454)
You can't ignore the fact that labor costs were also a large part of the reason manufacturing moved offshore. Those jobs aren't coming back, regardless of environmental regulations.

The path forward is to continue to innovate, not roll back environmental protections.

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Re:Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws by krapp on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:02PM (#23423509)
>Those jobs aren't coming back, regardless of environmental regulations.

And many of those jobs no longer exist... they were automated away long ago. So even if you brought the factories back, it wouldn't put many people to work.

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Re:Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws by Lammy on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:11PM (#23423570)
I don't believe an iPhone made in America would have to cost much—if anything—more than my iPhone from Foxconn. There's surely some spare change in Apple's hundred-billion-dollar cash pile that we could use to pay those more-expensive American workers a living wage: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/cash-on...
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