Comment by pshirshov
2 days ago
> The US has better air quality than any other country with over 50 million people and better air quality than the EU on average
And that remarkable achievement was only possible because the US does not produce evil solar panels on its soil, do I understand you right?
No? I didn't make the parent comment and I was mostly taking issue with the implication in your comment that US air quality was in some way deficient
But since you asked, while manufacturing solar panels does not itself pose a threat to air quality, environmental and air quality regulations obviously raise the cost of doing business in the manufacturing sector broadly, which makes the US less competitive up and down the supply chain than China. That's obviously not the entire story, but it's certainly part of it.