The US (and EU) are largely deindustrialized, having offshored nearly all of their grossly polluting industries to the Global South and Asia. It doesn't feel particularly fair to point fingers at the developing world when we've externalized nearly all of our pollution onto them.
(That doesn't, of course, excuse China's coal-fired plant growth, or any other form of egregious pollution. Only to say that these things don't happen in a vacuum.)
(That doesn't, of course, excuse China's coal-fired plant growth, or any other form of egregious pollution. Only to say that these things don't happen in a vacuum.)