A Corporate Environment: Industrial Control in the American Political System In the United States, corporate powers and private interest groups were allowed to exercise far too much control over the creation and enforcement of environmental regulations and policy. This crossing of boundaries has influenced the actions of politicians at all levels, but a dangerous crossing concerns the world of environmental policy. Businesses and private interest groups have much to lose if strict environmental policy is implemented in the United States and, as a result, these groups are willing, and unfortunately able, to fight back. Political Action CommitteeBusinesses and private interest groups were allowed to speak. The political system in the United States in several ways, one being the creation of PACs. A political action committee, or PAC, is a group authorized to make unlimited or nearly unlimited campaign contributions to a specific candidate, acting in the interest of a certain union, corporation or group that would not otherwise be in able to contribute in the amount or manner permitted by a PAC. This lack of limitation was not always the case, however. (Wikipedia, Political Action Committee, 2014)History of PACsIn 1947, the Taft-Hartly Act prohibited unions and corporations from spending money to influence elections, in order to maintain candidates' accountability to the electoral base. But in 1971, the Federal Election Campaign Act (and its amendments in 1974) defined a political action committee and allowed it to make contributions to a political campaign, in the interest of a business or organization. 'another group. According to the federal election campaign website, "FECA provided an exception where businesses... aph&AN=9710192632>Bartlett, Sarah and John Hickman. “Critical use exemptions and methyl bromide blues.” » Synthesis/Regeneration, 32 (2003): 29-30. Nguyen, Ngoc. “Use of banned pesticides remains high in California strawberry fields” New American Media (2011) “The phasing out of methyl bromide” United States Environmental Protection Agency (2014)