The Safe Chemicals Act, which he first introduced in 2005 to replace the outdated Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, never made it far -- a likely result of intense industry lobbying.
As a model, many point to the intense industry lobbying on behalf of the B-2 bomber, a plane that the Air Force says it doesn't need in any numbers above current plans.
James Thomas, a molecular biologist at Canada's University of Lethbridge, performs source tracking of fecal indicator bacteria in southern Alberta, where an intense livestock industry generates enormous amounts of waste.
Last year, a bi-partisan collaboration in Congress managed to raise the industry's contribution to Medicare by $12 billion over ten years, despite intense industry opposition, backed by a $21 million lobbying effort.
The intense industry lobbying resulted in a long and, at times, heated debate when the legislation was presented to the Upper House for its consideration.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed a narrowing of it through the lower chamber over intense industry objections; Apollo alone spent $1.5 million lobbying against the measure.
There is a serious risk, however, that the EPA will cave to intense industry pressure to weaken the standards, allowing much of this pollution to continue indefinitely.
In recent interviews, officials blamed intense industry lobbying for the plan's collapse.
It is a campaign that has moved in fits and starts and has been the subject of intense industry lobbying.
