Weirdly enough, it wasn't the EPA that caught them, so they were doing a good job hiding it from the people that are in charge of finding these things out. So

Weirdly enough, it wasn't the EPA that caught them, so they were doing a good job hiding it from the people that are in charge of finding these things out. So you could say, they would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids!