Who's in who's pocket?

I've been doing a little reaserch for work. I've got to look at the latest headlines and find info on Green House Gases (GHG) and in the meantime I find all kinds of other environmental articles. Most make me shake my head and wonder at the....hmmm, not sure whether it's audacity, greed, stupidity, or just plane evilness that makes people do the things they do. For example: Obama has put the breaks on new ozone regulations. Granted this is a little behind the times, by about a month, but I just got this assignment and am catching up. So anyway, a republican senator then proposed an amendment, connected to ANOTHER bill, so that no one could sue the EPA in regards to limiting the ozone levels. The whole "rider" thing on bills is another rant for another day and is one of the small reasons our government is broke as well as inaffective. So, back to my issue with the ozone reg's. We know that ozone is bad, we know that it causes health problems. WE KNOW THIS!!! So why in the hell is someone pushing back the date when regulations need to become more stringent? Oh, the economy, right, tha's already in the toilet, maybe if we fixed the ozone regulations, we'd create jobs. Someone ( most likely an elected official or two) are in the pockets of someone with a lot of money that doesn't want to pay to decrease ozone emissions. I'm just saying.
Another article I read was about the natural gas exploration out in Wyoming that has had a dramatic effect on the sage grouse population. And not a good effect either. The BLM has seriously mismanaged their lands. The amount of grazing combined with the natural gas exploration has had a detrimental effect on the sage grouse population. Because of this the BLM has been taken to court by an environmental group and actually won and a judge has charged the BLM with preparing a new environmental assessment.  So my question is, who's pocket were these idiots in? Obviously someone's since they looked the other way on an obviously critical area that should have been more closely monitored. This is another area that we should have learned the consequences about already. We know that when we destroy habitat entire species have a difficult time rebounding from population crashes. There are countless examples in the US and all over the world. So why does someone need to go to court and get a judge to tell them that they need to look at what they are doing. We are destroying our planet and all anyone is worried about is lining their damn pockets with cash. Don't they realize that they won't be able to use any of their evil gotten gains if there is no planet to live on. Granted the planet will survive long enough for the idiots to spend their money, but they obviously aren't thinking of anyone but themselves. They aren't even thinking of their children or grandchildren, because those are the people that will have to deal with the mess we leave behind.