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Is Ethanol Good for the Environment? A DOE study concluded that the proposal would increase energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The DOE sought to include this analysis in the rule-making docket while the proposal was under consideration, but the EPA objected. * Green Baptists and Brown Bootleggers Rent seeking in the name of environmental policy is prevalent, in part, because green policies shield otherwise ill-fated policies. Moreover, the ability of economic interest groups to supplement their lobbying efforts with public interest allies from the environmentalist community greatly enhances their political clout. Clemson University Professor Bruce Yandle called such efforts Bootlegger and Baptist coalitions. Both bootleggers and Baptists favor statutes that shut down liquor stores on Sunday, Yandle explains. The Baptists because of their religious preferences. The bootleggers because it expands their market. * Hazardous Waste Processors Environmental activists may prefer tightening hazardous-waste regulations, because of their religious preferences, while hazardous-waste treatment firms see such regulations as an opportunity to expand their market. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the HWTC joined environmental groups to criticize the EPA’s enforcement of hazardous-waste laws, including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Environmental Defense Fund, Izaak Walton League, National Audubon Society, and Sierra Club. The HWTC even allowed environmental group officials to testify on its behalf before Congress. * Increasing Demand for Its Services The HWTC’s membership benefited from tighter enforcement, as its members specialize in meeting stringent cleanup and treatment standards. The HWTC and the Environmental Technology Council have sought to increase regulatory controls and to classify waste streams as hazardous—from the burning of hazardous waste in cement kilns and Superfund cleanup standards, to the recycling of fluorescent bulbs and th