My question is whether we will see the inverse happening: people suing local companies and winning lawsuits forcing the corpos to follow the law rather than relying on government agencies to do it on the public’s behalf.
Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce was brought by lawyers from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is also funded by the Koch brothers
so hint: it definitely was "big" entities looking to skirt regulations
The decision has very little to do with a small business problem and the real reason for all of this is complete deregulation of vast corporate enterprises who will challenge every single environmental regulation.
To paint it as "small business stands up to big govt" is at best, hopelessly naive, and at worst, corporate propaganda and outright lies.
Corporations have vastly more power and influence in our government than they did in the 50s or 60s or 70s or 80s.
I do not trust these entities to stop rat fucking innocent Americans because they had the audacity to not want to be poisoned.