{"id":118202,"date":"2021-02-04T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T22:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=118202"},"modified":"2021-02-04T17:42:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T22:42:25","slug":"biden-epa-pick-most-solar-energy-electric-vehicle-parts-come-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-epa-pick-most-solar-energy-electric-vehicle-parts-come-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden EPA Pick: \u2018Most\u2019 Solar Energy, Electric Vehicle Parts \u2018Come From China\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-epa-pick-most-solar-energy-electric-vehicle-parts-come-from-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=118202&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230954904_736x514.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Joe Biden&#8217;s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged that the administration&#8217;s green energy agenda will enrich China in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a Wednesday confirmation hearing, Michael Regan faced a question from Sen. Mike Braun (R., Ind.) regarding China&#8217;s inaction on climate change. The nominee pointed to his time at the helm of North Carolina&#8217;s Department of Environmental Quality, noting that while the state is among the nation&#8217;s leaders in &#8220;solar installation,&#8221; most of the parts being installed are Chinese. According to Regan, this places the United States at a disadvantage in the clean energy market.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Biden Administration<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-epa-pick-most-solar-energy-electric-vehicle-parts-come-from-china\/\"><strong>Biden EPA Pick: \u2018Most&#8217; Solar Energy, Electric Vehicle Parts \u2018Come From China&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/report-anti-israel-activist-heading-to-biden-state-dept\/\"><strong>Report:&nbsp;Anti-Israel Activist Heading to Biden State Dept<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/labor-nominee-dismisses-job-losses-from-bidens-economic-plan\/\"><strong>Labor Nominee Dismisses Job Losses from Biden&#8217;s Economic Plan<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;North Carolina is now second in solar installation in the country. What we find is most of the parts we want to install come from China,&#8221; Regan said. &#8220;We&#8217;re finding that if we don&#8217;t capture the market, we&#8217;re going to fall behind. I believe that&#8217;s the same for solar, it&#8217;s for cars.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regan&#8217;s admission reflects the problem with Biden&#8217;s push to create &#8220;good-paying&#8221; American jobs in the clean energy sector. Biden climate officials have argued that job gains in the industry will offset losses among fossil fuel workers, and Regan expressed confidence that the country could &#8220;remain globally competitive&#8221; by making up ground in manufacturing. Others, however, are less optimistic, contending that China&#8217;s inferior labor and environmental standards give the communist nation a leg up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;You look at solar panels, you look at wind turbines, how they&#8217;re made. China, we know from everything that they do being state capitalists\u2014they&#8217;re going to do things to put their industries at a competitive edge and reap the benefits while they&#8217;re polluting the air,&#8221; Braun told the<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot we need to be careful with.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Derek Scissors echoed Braun&#8217;s concerns. China<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/bidens-buy-american-clean-energy-conundrum\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">controls<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">roughly 60 percent of the solar industry&#8217;s supply chain and produces 75 percent of global polysilicon, a key raw material in solar cell manufacturing. As a result, merely controlling the &#8220;installation&#8221; phase of production could be insufficient when it comes to creating American jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;If the administration wants to greatly increase the use of solar, it faces the problem that China spends heavily to dominate world solar production. Either we&#8217;d have to rely on Chinese suppliers when ramping up solar or the administration would have to use legal means to secure the supply chain,&#8221; Scissors said. &#8220;In this sense, solar reflects the larger challenge facing \u2018build back better&#8217;: The final stage of production may not be that important.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The EPA told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that it is &#8220;committed to delivering on the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s commitment to build a clean energy future that creates good-paying jobs for Americans.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Braun and his Republican colleagues are not the only lawmakers pushing back on Biden&#8217;s climate agenda. Four Texas Democrats recently sent the president a letter<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/texas-dems-blast-bidens-devastating-energy-policy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">blasting<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">his flurry of environmental executive orders, writing that Biden&#8217;s attack on oil and gas leasing on federal lands &#8220;will certainly imperil hundreds of thousands of jobs, entire communities, and billions of dollars in royalty revenues to the Federal Treasury.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The intraparty pushback will be welcomed by Republicans as their partisan counterparts plan additional action to address climate change. A group of progressive lawmakers\u2014including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.)\u2014unveiled legislation Thursday calling on Biden to declare a national climate emergency, writing that &#8220;an even larger mobilization is needed.&#8221; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) has made the same push in recent weeks, stating that a national emergency declaration would allow Biden to institute &#8220;many, many things under the emergency powers of the president \u2026 that he could do without legislation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged that the administration&#8217;s green energy agenda will enrich China in the near future. 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