Corporations and developers are funding litigation and lobbying campaigns that would create unjustifiable rights to pollute and profit at the expense of neighboring homeowners, property, and the environment.  These "legalized extortion" campaigns would force taxpayers to fund unlimited payments to companies that comply with a wide range of health, safety, environmental, and other laws that do not take away any private property rights.

Judging the Environment's Glenn Sugameli has published extensively on these efforts.