Last I checked years ago, they sold their carbon credits for a whole lot of money whenever they earned them.

The US is corrupt enough at this point the only thing massive corporations have to do to survive is be massive.

Many companies that never even have turned a consistent profit are major players in the US economy.

The idea of valuing actual market competition is a distraction conservatives point to as a cool aesthetic and it has little to do with the economic reality of the US. So long as the right people are in power a dictatorship is totally acceptable to conservatives by and large and the inevitable end result of that as we are seeing are stunning displays of incompetency at the highest levels of power.