From the Sunday New York Times (of course):

As for the idea that the U.S. is a major “polluter,” that is only because the U.S. is the world’s largest producer.  Few, if any, countries have reduced air pollution more than the U.S. in recent decades.

According to the Biden Administration’s own Environmental Protection Agency: “Between 1970 and 2020, the combined emissions of the six common pollutants (PM2. 5 and PM10, SO2, NOx, VOCs, CO, and Pb) dropped by 78 percent. This progress occurred while U.S. economic indicators remain strong. The emissions reductions have led to dramatic improvements in the quality of the air that we breathe.”

https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/progress-cleaning-air-and-improving-peoples-health

Finally, try not to laugh out loud when you read this statement in the New York Times article:

“China is known for setting targets and hitting them. It has already surpassed its goal ensuring the share of energy derived from non-fossil fuel sources 25% by 2030.”

Sure and then here is a chart that regular readers of the HOTLINE will recognize, as we’ve shown it before:

That doesn’t look like a country ready to reduce CO2 emissions.