Imagine an EPA regulation that is maintaining that an oil company has to clean up a spill to a certain degree that will cost time and money. The EPA is supposed to protect the environment. Oil money is big. How many previous EPA higher ups leave to join the companies they used to "regulate"? An EPA employee that is thinking about how his report may affect his potential relationship to that future oil dough, is captured. This happens all the time and in many seemingly conflicted agencies and companies. Very simple.
Imagine an EPA regulation that is maintaining that an oil company has to clean up a spill to a certain degree that will cost time and money. The EPA is supposed to protect the environment. Oil money is big. How many previous EPA higher ups leave to join the companies they used to "regulate"? An EPA employee that is thinking about how his report may affect his potential relationship to that future oil dough, is captured. This happens all the time and in many seemingly conflicted agencies and companies. Very simple.
In regard to oil spills, you may be right, but I was thinking in terms of the "climate change" side of EPA's control of the energy sector.