The Republicans celebrated last month's triumph by fast-tracking several K-Street favourites: exempting older coal-fired plants from new anti-pollution rules, and making it easier to open national forests to logging and drilling.

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Sunstein argue that a lack of feedback on activities like pollution ensures the continuation of harmful decision-making.

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Americans for Prosperity has held at least eighty events targeting cap-and-trade legislation, which is aimed at making industries pay for the air pollution that they create.

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