So, why have the automakers and Republicans been so opposed to increasing the CAFE standards, so opposed to California continuing to address its pollution problems (don't Republicans support States' Rights especially at the behest of a Republican governor?), and so opposed to implementing the law requiring new source reductions for the power plants polluting New England?

You know, if the automakers and Republicans and power plants would just clean up the pollution, the environmentalists would have nothing to sue about and thus no opportunity to profit from lawsuits.

I don't think your claims make any sense. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and let you explain why it is that Republicans, automakers, and power plants are doing everything they can to make environmentalists have lots of things to sue about, and have such clear cut cases that even the Supreme Court which is Republican by seven to two, says the environmentalists should win, and in your theory, profit.

Of course, if you are for free markets, then you should be absolutely totally in support of anything done legally that produces a profit. If you are opposed to the environmentalists profiting from their lawsuits to enforce the law, law that a Republican Supreme Court says must be enforced by lawsuits, then you must be a socialist or a Marxist.