Obama’s Green Dilemma: Punish China, Imperil U.S. Solar

From the State of the Union address in January to a recent California fundraising swing, President Barack Obama has missed few opportunities to tout the nation’s use of renewable energy to fight climate change.

“We’ve reduced our carbon pollution over the past eight years more than any country on Earth,” the president told supporters recently at the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College. “We now generate 10 times the solar electricity, creating tens of thousands of jobs across the country.”