From my perspective, the squeeking wheel gets greased ($$$)...the marginalized or less represented have a harder time getting policy change in their favor.

Also the whole topic of junk science and policy...

Personally, I think this is the new USA - love it or leave it. My plan is to cooperate voluntarily less and less - i.e. the DPF comes off. As for urea - well, there should be a workaround available for that, soon enough.