In more than half of the states where exceptional events were forgiven, industry lobbyists and business interests pressed to make that happen, sometimes as the only public voice in the regulatory process. Also, to protect the status quo, some regulators spent millions of taxpayer dollars doing research for and making exceptional events requests, sometimes working hand in hand with industry stakeholders.

That’s a big problem because it means that Big Buisness is fudging numbers so it can up its own output without going over the limits.

Never think that companies won’t help kill people to pad their own profits.