Massive Arizona Wildfire Reignites Debate Over Environmental Lawsuits (Many in Arizona blame the environmental lawsuits that prevented regular logging that normally thinned the number of trees and allowed the forest to become overgrown as the cause of these megafires. The environmentalist insist that the theory is just a scare tactic. What -- a scare tactic? The people of Arizona are focused on a real threat, the threat of fire. That is not a scare tactic. And the environmentalist elite are not lily white but a major actor that refuses to accept any responsibility for their actions.)