The article ignores environmental issues that cost manufactures nothing but grief. I am not saying ALL environmental laws are bad, and industry has done lots of things in the past to hurt itself, but the effect is to act as a disincentive to produce things that will cost much more in the US (or western Europe) than overseas. By adding so much environmental regulation onto the back of industry, they just say "Screw it, move it to another country". Let them worry about the environmental impact. If the US and Europe want to get these jobs back, then the price of the products will have to get artificially inflated via tax or import duties to overcome these burdens.