Well…I think it is a conscious plan for the right to make up lots of fake scandals so when a real one comes along, no one will notice. Luckily, someone did notice this one…a real one, and did a story on it last week. As you know, the right would love a country where companies can pollute as much as they want and push the cost on to the taxpayers when cleanup time comes…and that any environmental regulation is a “job killer” that has to be stopped by any means possible. To the repubs, that means suing the government any time we try to do anything to improve the environment…but this time the suits against the new carbon regulations have a buried little scandal that no one is talking about….before any repub state AG filed any suits against the new regulations, they met with all of the usual suspects to plan strategy…and that means coal companies, oil companies and every other one that poisons the people for profit. It was also revealed that these AG’s received millions of dollars in political contributions….and, of course, this didn’t have any bearing on whether the suits were brought (snark)….but, the worst part is since these repub state AG’s are bringing the suit, you and I are paying for it…yep, our taxes are paying to sue our own government to allow companies to poison us…and the companies walk away with their only cost being the donations to the repubs, not the true costs of the suits which would be hundreds of times more cost to them. Pretty normal for the repubs…use government to reward their buddies while we pick up the tab…geez…