Large companies are often the first to lobby for these types of things because it pushes out small business that can't pay it.
I have also seen large companies who want to get out in front and publicly declare policy bad for their bottom line then lobby the government for a law so other large companies have to follow suit.
Shell is a prime example, as they were the first ones to declare CO2 sequestration on all their large projects to act like a 'Greenie'. It caused all their Australian projects to be 25% more capital expensive. Afterwards, they threw a lot of money at the Australian govt seeking to get a federal mandate to do the same thing, so their projects would not become noncompetitive.