"Reasonable controls" on pollution that don't touch China are political and anti-Western.
As for standards (like mileage and emission) causing the death of the domestic auto industry, no it didn't. But there was a time when the domestic auto industry was on life support back in the 1970s because the Japanese small cars that met mileage standards were eating them alive. They recovered eventually, but Chrysler in particular needed a government bailout. No reasonable person can claim these standards did not have any economic impact.
To be fair, the price increases of gasoline had a lot to do with this problem, too.
But in the long run, IMO, the foreign competition resulted in a far better American auto industry, a point against the protectionism auto workers and others were demanding at the time.