In short, USCAP members wants to be involved in shaping legislation.

That doesn't necessarily mean they actually want thorough legislation.

If anything, it's far easier to write a piece of legislation with crippling loopholes, than to avoid having any legislation at all.

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Now is it the 5 stages of grief.
http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/files/5StagesClimateGrief.htm

Or is it merely just another brick in the stonewalling?