The immorality of what lobby groups want. Letter to Trump on December 5th, a long wish list

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https://nam.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Manufacturers-Regulatory-Letter-to-President-Elect-Trump_12.5.24.pdf

National Association of Manufacturers sent an 18 page letter to Trump (and 18 of his designees) to make specific requests that do things like:
*approve LNG export facilities p. 3
*use federal lands for domestic mining p.3
*modify Clean Water, Clear Air, and Endangered Species Acts p.4-6
*lower air quality standards for particulate and ambient ozone p.4-5
*don’t proceed with climate disclosure rules p. 10
*ignore PFAS for a while p. 11
*weaken OSHA rules on heat standard, overtime, non-compete agreements p. 13
*backtrack on climate disclosures p. 15
*allow M&As to happen without prior review p. 15
*keep IP rights sacrosanct: no ‘march-in’ rights regardless of ripoffs, and no ‘right to repair’ p. 16
*don’t require disclosure of cyber incidents p.16
*postpone increase in food safety regulations p. 17

(On a brighter note, they supported the credits in the infrastructure reinvestment act for clean energy; as well as “long-term regulatory certainty” for automakers.p 8-9)

The immorality is NOT in expressing their positions — it’s really in ganging up as a single entity, a monolithic block of lobby groups that sign on to ALL of these goals. Because that’s part of what fascism looks like. Corporate leaders marching in lockstep, individually ignoring the consequences to human beings. They can all agree on all of these things because there is no corporate cost to having workers die in the heat, or kids and animals mutating from PFAS, no accountability for the planet’s climate impact, no bottom line loss for ripping up federal lands. Food safety, why bother? Corporations don’t eat lettuce; they are more likely to eat humans in the pursuit of M&A and stock buybacks.

Fun times.