The WTO is quite well known for this kind of thing. It is not against environmental regulations per se, just against "trade distorting" regulation.
For example - hoping I remember this right - the US tried to ban a petrol additive that was leaching out of storage tanks into the ground. Canadian companies, who used said chemical, pushed their government to complain. The issue was not that the US was wrong to enact measures to counter the problem, it was that they did so in a "trade distorting" fashion. Instead of banning the additive, they could have dug up and replaced every petrol storage tank in the country. Why yes, that would be ridiculously expensive, but it would also not disadvantage any foreign petrol refiners and thus wouldn't attract the ire of the WTO.
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For example - hoping I remember this right - the US tried to ban a petrol additive that was leaching out of storage tanks into the ground. Canadian companies, who used said chemical, pushed their government to complain. The issue was not that the US was wrong to enact measures to counter the problem, it was that they did so in a "trade distorting" fashion. Instead of banning the additive, they could have dug up and replaced every petrol storage tank in the country. Why yes, that would be ridiculously expensive, but it would also not disadvantage any foreign petrol refiners and thus wouldn't attract the ire of the WTO.
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