American manufacturing has fallen victim to a “giant sucking sound,” according to an expert on energy and climate.  

There is a “a giant sucking sound of energy-intensive manufacturing leaving the West and going to China,” Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal.  

The prevalence of the green energy agenda has moved a significant portion of energy production to China, which, according to Furchtgott-Roth, has resulted in the West “committing economic suicide.”  

The West’s “green energy policies cost billions of dollars annually and are driving up Western electricity prices,” she said. “Since China produces about 75% of wind........

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