Hamartia Antidote
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How would it push manufacturing to Asia, when "undeveloped" Asian countries already had labour protection laws stronger than that of US (thanks to red scare,) and were ratifiers of Montreal protocol and its predecessors before US did?
Malaysia and Japan did sue trichloroethylene leakers heavily in eighties and nineties, unlike the US, where lobbyists kept it in use till late nineties.
For as long as you don't concern yourself with most exotic chemical products, and electronics, it's hard to fathom how would light industry see its being subject to environmental protection acts.
Here's a liitle tidbit
This used to be the textile story in the US
leather consumer goods aftermath