insights welcome on the regulatory capture in TX; spin addition on the story from me might be -- that "we're learning just how dirty it was" is not the case in a system of systems. News stories somehow imply a common, collective understanding with a collective voice of discovery, but this is an illusion maintained for civil progress. Multiple individual researchers in every generation, and some institutions and business interests, not only knew how dirty it was, but went to great lengths to tell anyone, do something, make it stop or change. It is a particular brand of militant, obstinate and dominant management style, cherished in Texas politics, that repeatedly ignore and in fact mock opposition. It is a sport among them to bait and goad environmentalists, undermine the agenda, and lay blame on ordinary economic and political trends on greens.

"we're learning just how dirty it was" speaks from the calm policy podium, but is not sufficient in this case of environmental crime.