Boston Globe: The Obama administration has further undermined its carbon-reduction goals by putting up a needless barrier to imported renewables. On Tuesday, the administration toughened existing tariffs on Chinese-made solar panels, which increase their cost to American consumers by 27 to 78 percent. At a time when the administration is seeking to prod the US economy to move away from fossil fuel reliance, making renewables artificially more expensive is precisely the wrong move.
After years of false starts,...