There could be a sunny side to ban on Chinese solar ingredients

Plus, Exxon suffers another setback, this time in a significant court decision

. . . . Today, the Biden administration, punishing China for human rights abuses against its Uyghur Muslim minority, banned trade with five companies in the Xinjiang region that are key suppliers to the solar industry.

The immediate implications are obvious: The province, which has been accused of using slave and child labor, produces roughly half of th…