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#Regulatory-Capture

Events indexed under #Regulatory-Capture — 641 entries in the record.

641 events From Jan 1, 1899 To Jul 16, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-07-16OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic CEOs Converge on Mandatory Pre-Release Scrutiny and US-Led Global AI Governance Body 3 src
Sam Altman · Dario Amodei · OpenAI · Anthropic
reported
2026-07-15Emails Show Entergy Arkansas Co-Drafted Pulaski County Moratorium That Exempts Its Own $6B Prospective Customer 2 srcconfirmed
2026-07-15Hochul Signs EO 62 — First Statewide Hyperscale Data Center Moratorium as 20+ Localities Move in One Week 3 src
Kathy Hochul
confirmed
2026-07-15Saline Township MI Caps Oracle/OpenAI Tax Abatement 9x, Then Reverses Under 'Shall Approve' Legal Threat 72 Hours Later 4 src
Oracle · OpenAI
confirmed
2026-07-12GENIUS Act's July 18 Deadline Looms: Banks Poised to Enter Stablecoin Market as Trump's WLFI Conflict Intensifies 2 src
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · World Liberty Financial
confirmed
2026-07-09Fed Chair Warsh Appoints a16z's Marc Andreessen to Co-Lead AI Productivity Task Force 2 src
Kevin Warsh · Marc Andreessen · Federal Reserve
confirmed
2026-07-09US Government's Pre-Release Authority Over Frontier AI Becomes Operational; OpenAI's Equity-Stake Proposal Advances in Parallel 1 src
OpenAI · Anthropic · Trump Administration
confirmed
2026-07-08Clearview AI Pursues FedRAMP Clearance as CBP Expands Facial Recognition to All Non-US Travelers 2 src
Clearview AI · U.S. Customs and Border Protection
confirmed
2026-07-03AI Governance Fractures: EU AI Act Enforceable Aug 2 as 19 US State Laws Pass in Two Weeks and Trump EO Guts Federal Oversight 2 src
European Commission · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-07-02DHS Buys CoreCivic's Two Largest CA Detention Centers for $1.5B, Keeps CoreCivic as Operator, Sidesteps Federal Oversight 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · CoreCivic
confirmed
2026-07-02OpenAI Proposes 5% U.S. Government Equity Stake (~$42.6B) as Sovereign-Wealth Vehicle 3 src
OpenAI · Donald Trump
reported
2026-07-02Washington County MD Votes 4-1 for 12-Month Data Center Moratorium Over Infrastructure Cost-Shift Concerns 1 srcconfirmed
2026-06-27SCOTUS poised to grant Trump at-will firing power over independent agencies in Trump v. Slaughter 3 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission
confirmed
2026-06-24GENIUS Act Rulemaking: OCC Adopts Industry-Preferred Reserve Standards, Issues Trust-Bank Charters to Crypto Firms 2 src
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Jonathan Gould · Crypto.com · Ripple
confirmed
2026-06-19DHS Scraps Seven Warehouse Conversions as GAO Finds Camp East Montana 'Wasted Millions' 2 src
Government Accountability Office · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-06-09GENIUS Act AML/Sanctions Comment Period Closes 11:59 PM ET — WLF Verified Absent at Docket Closure; July 18 Final Rule Statutory Deadline 8 src
Scott Bessent · World Liberty Financial · WLTC Holdings LLC
confirmed
2026-06-09Trump Family Clears $2.3B in Crypto Income as World Liberty Financial Seeks National Trust Bank Charter 3 src
Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Public Citizen
confirmed
2026-06-04Great American AI Act Discussion Draft Proposes 3-Year Preemption of State AI Laws; White House Bundles It With KOSA Package 3 src
White House
confirmed
2026-05-26Trump Calls Christie, James, Walz, Pritzker 'SCUM' Defending CFTC Prediction-Market Authority While Don Jr. Advises/Invests in Kalshi and Polymarket 3 src
Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Chris Christie · Letitia James · +3
confirmed
2026-05-21World Liberty Financial Nears OCC Conditional Approval for National Trust Bank Charter to Custody USD1 3 src
World Liberty Financial · Zach Witkoff · WLTC Holdings LLC · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · +1
confirmed
2026-05-13EPA Proposes Redefining 'Begin Actual Construction' Under NSR — Allows Datacenter Construction Before Air Permits 5 src
Lee Zeldin · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-05-13Senate Confirms Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair 54-45; Powell Stays as Board Governor 2 src
Kevin Warsh · Jerome Powell · Scott Bessent · J.D. Vance · +2
confirmed
2026-05-11U.S. Spy Agencies Seek Expanded Power Over AI Regulation as Trump Admin Internal Battle Pits Intelligence Community Against Commerce Department 3 src
Office of the Director of National Intelligence · U.S. Commerce Department · Anthropic
confirmed
2026-05-096+ EDVA Prosecutors Fired or Forced Out as DOJ Purges Those Who Resisted Comey Political Indictment 3 src
Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · James Comey · Lindsey Halligan · +1
confirmed
2026-05-08CBP Refund Portal Validates 47,000 IEEPA Tariff Claims as Treasury Begins Returning Estimated $166B in Unlawful Duties 4 src
U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of the Treasury · Donald Trump · Scott Bessent
confirmed
2026-05-07ICE 287(g) Funding Pipeline Reaches $137M Already Disbursed, $2B Projected for 2026 With Performance Bonuses for Immigration Arrests; 760+ Departments, 13,800-15,800 Officers Deputized 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-05-07Palantir Awarded USDA No-Bid Contract Up to $75M for 'Bossware' Tracking of Federal Workers' Return-to-Office Compliance 4 src
Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Agriculture · Brooke Rollins
confirmed
2026-05-01DOE §202(c) emergency coal-retention order log through May 2026: 43+ orders, ~4.4 GW stalled across 6 plants, D.C. Circuit challenges filed 10 src
Chris Wright · Department of Energy · NIPSCO · Earthjustice · +1
confirmed
2026-04-16FERC misses DOE-ordered April 30 deadline on large-load interconnection Docket RM26-4-000 — issues Intent to Act order committing to June 2026 action 6 src
Chris Wright · Department of Energy
confirmed
2026-04-10FinCEN/OFAC open GENIUS Act AML/sanctions NPRM docket — WLF-benefiting rule enters comment period 4 src
Scott Bessent
confirmed
2026-04-01OCC final rule amending 12 CFR 5.20 takes effect, replacing 'fiduciary activities' with 'operations of a trust company and activities related thereto' for national trust bank charters 8 src
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Jonathan Gould · U.S. Department of the Treasury
confirmed
2026-03-12AI Industry Super PACs Pour $125 Million Into 2026 Midterms to Block Regulation, Targeting Candidates With Hidden Influence Campaign 7 src
OpenAI · Anthropic · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +4
confirmed
2026-03-12DOGE Cuts 1,029 More NOAA Employees, Threatening Weather Forecasting and Disaster Response 3 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-03-11Trump Administration Launches Section 301 Trade Probes to Rebuild Tariff Regime After Supreme Court Defeat 4 src
Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · U.S. Department of Commerce · U.S. Court of International Trade
confirmed
2026-03-08Colorado Attorney General and Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Illegal Rejection of State Clean Air Plan Protecting Coal 3 src
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Earthjustice · Sierra Club · Lee Zeldin
confirmed
2026-03-08Legal Challenges Mount Against EPA Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding 5 src
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump · Environmental Defense Fund · +1
confirmed
2026-03-05SEC Settles Tron Fraud Case — Rainberry Pays $10M, Justin Sun Personal Charges Dismissed With Prejudice 4 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · Justin Sun · Tron Foundation · World Liberty Financial
confirmed
2026-03-04Environmental Groups Press Legal Challenge Against EPA's Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding 4 src
Earthjustice · Clean Air Task Force · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · +1
confirmed
2026-02-24Full DC Circuit Hears Three-Hour Arguments on CFPB Mass Layoffs; Court Grills Administration on Separation of Powers 6 src
Russell Vought · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · National Treasury Employees Union · U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit · +1
confirmed
2026-02-23Legal Scholars Assess State Climate Authority After Endangerment Repeal; California Formally Sues EPA 6 src
California Attorney General Rob Bonta · U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
confirmed
2026-02-21Independent Analysis Projects 58,000 Additional Deaths and $4.7 Trillion in Costs from EPA Endangerment Repeal 4 src
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump · Fossil Fuel Industry
confirmed
2026-02-19Trump Issues DOGE Deregulatory Executive Order Requiring 60-Day Regulatory Review at All Agencies Including Independent Bodies 4 src
Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · +1
confirmed
2026-02-18EPA Endangerment Finding Repeal Published in Federal Register; Coalition Lawsuits Filed Same Day 7 src
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Earthjustice · Environmental Defense Fund · +3
confirmed
2026-02-18Trump Invokes Defense Production Act for Bayer/Monsanto Glyphosate, Potentially Shielding Corporation from 100,000+ Cancer Lawsuits 3 src
Donald Trump · Brooke Rollins · Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
confirmed
2026-02-13Jim O'Neill and Mike Stuart Depart HHS in Leadership Shakeup Ahead of Midterms 3 src
Jim O'Neill · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
confirmed
2026-02-12EPA Repeals 2009 Endangerment Finding on Greenhouse Gases 4 src
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-02-12Trust in Federal Health Agencies Plummets Under RFK Jr. Despite Restoration Promises 2 src
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
confirmed
2026-02-11SEC Chair Atkins Grilled by Congress Over 60% Crypto Enforcement Decline 2 src
Paul Atkins · Securities and Exchange Commission · House Financial Services Committee · Justin Sun · +1
confirmed
2026-02-11Trump Orders Pentagon to Purchase Coal-Fired Electricity 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Department of Energy · Peabody Energy
confirmed
2026-02-08EPA Advances Rollback of Four PFAS Drinking Water Standards 3 src
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin
confirmed
2026-02-07SEC Denies All Whistleblower Award Claims in First Quarter of FY2026 3 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · Paul Atkins
confirmed
2026-02-03Congress Passes Bipartisan HHS Funding Bill Blocking RFK Jr.'s Proposed 25% Budget Cuts 2 src
U.S. Congress · Donald Trump · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
confirmed
2026-02-02GAO Report Reveals Education Department Paid $38M to Idled Civil Rights Staff 3 src
U.S. Government Accountability Office · U.S. Department of Education · Linda McMahon · Bernie Sanders · +1
confirmed
2026-02-01SEC Cuts PCAOB Budget 9.4%, Slashes Board Compensation by Half 2 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · Paul Atkins
confirmed
2026-01-31SEC Chair Atkins Appoints Trump Loyalists to PCAOB Accounting Oversight Board 3 src
Paul Atkins · Securities and Exchange Commission · Elizabeth Warren
confirmed
2026-01-29Ten Tech Vendors Offer $600 Million in Discounts to Implement Medicaid Work Requirements 2 src
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Donald Trump · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
confirmed
2026-01-27Trump Executive Order Authorizes Federal Preemption of California Rebuilding Regulations 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · Small Business Administration
confirmed
2026-01-23OCC Comptroller Gould Refuses Warren Demand to Pause WLFI Charter Review 3 src
Jonathan Gould · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Elizabeth Warren · World Liberty Financial · +1
confirmed
2026-01-19EPA issues Section 7(b) Brownfield/Superfund AI datacenter reuse guidance on EO deadline — CERCLA liability retained, energy and water proximity required 6 src
Lee Zeldin · Department of Energy
confirmed
2026-01-18EPA WOTUS Rollback Moves Forward After Public Comment Period 3 src
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
confirmed
2026-01-17DOGE Claims $881M in Education Research Contract Cancellations 3 src
Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. Department of Education · Linda McMahon
confirmed
2026-01-15Public Citizen Report Documents 159 Cancelled Corporate Enforcement Actions Worth $3.1 Billion 2 src
Public Citizen · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-01-07World Liberty Financial Applies for OCC Bank Charter 3 src
World Liberty Financial · Trump Organization · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-01-05CDC Slashes Childhood Vaccine Schedule from 17 to 11 Diseases, Bypassing Advisory Committee 3 src
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Jim O'Neill · Donald Trump · Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
confirmed
2026-01-01ACA Enhanced Subsidies Expire, Premiums Double for 22 Million Americans 3 src
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Congress · Donald Trump
confirmed
2025-12-16House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing Exposes How Trump Administration Corrupted DOJ Antitrust Enforcement Through Pay-to-Play Schemes and Political Interference 3 src
Jamie Raskin · Pam Bondi · Chad Mizelle · Jim Jordan · +8
reported
2025-12-09FBI Director Kash Patel Signs Qatar Security Agreements Despite Recent Lobbying History and Ethics Waiver Controversy 4 src
Kash Patel · Craig Holman · Public Citizen
reported
2025-12-08Alina Habba Resigns as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Following Appeals Court Ruling 4 src
Alina Habba · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
reported
2025-12-08Paramount Skydance Launches $108.4 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with Saudi, Qatari, and UAE Backing 5 src
David Ellison · Larry Ellison · Saudi Public Investment Fund · Qatar Investment Authority · +7
reported
2025-12-06Trump DOT waives $11 million Southwest Airlines fine, dismantling corporate accountability 6 src
Trump Administration · Sean Duffy · Department of Transportation · Elizabeth Warren
confirmed
2025-12-05RFK Jr.'s Reconstituted CDC Panel Votes to Roll Back Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendation 5 src
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices · Donald Trump · +1
confirmed
2025-12-04FDA Vaccine Chief Vinay Prasad Circulates Unsubstantiated Memo Claiming COVID Vaccines Killed At Least Ten Children 7 src
Vinay Prasad · Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
confirmed
2025-12-04GAO Opens Investigation Into FHFA Director Bill Pulte for Weaponized Criminal Referrals Targeting Trump Critics 7 src
Government Accountability Office (GAO) · Bill Pulte · Federal Housing Finance Agency · Letitia James · +3
confirmed
2025-12-02FDA Cancer Drug Chief Dr. Richard Pazdur Resigns After Three Weeks Under Political Pressure 5 src
Marty Makary · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Food and Drug Administration · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +2
reported
2025-12-01Trump Administration Drops 100+ Corporate Enforcement Actions, Penalties Fall 97 Percent 9 src
Trump Administration · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Trade Commission
confirmed
2025-11-25House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing 4 src
Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +17
reported
2025-11-19Interior Department Proposes Opening 1.27 Billion Acres to Offshore Drilling, Largest OCS Program in History 6 src
Doug Burgum · Department of the Interior
confirmed
2025-11-18Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Case as Judge Rules No Monopoly Despite Instagram/WhatsApp Acquisitions 3 src
James Boasberg · Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · +1
confirmed
2025-11-14ProPublica Investigation Exposes Hidden Corruption in Noem's $220M DHS Ad Campaign 4 src
Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Tricia McLaughlin · Madison Sheahan · +2
confirmed
2025-10-29Binance.US Lists Trump's USD1 Stablecoin Days After Presidential Pardon of Binance Founder 4 src
Binance · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump · Chris Murphy · +2
confirmed
2025-10-23Energy Secretary Wright invokes rare DOE-over-FERC directive authority to compel ANOPR on large-load interconnection — Docket RM26-4-000 — final action ordered by April 30 2026 6 src
Chris Wright · Department of Energy
confirmed
2025-10-23Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder After $2 Billion Deal With Trump Family Crypto Venture and $450,000 Lobbying Campaign 5 src
Donald Trump · Changpeng Zhao · Binance · World Liberty Financial · +4
confirmed
2025-10-23White House Releases List of 37 Corporate Donors for Trump's $300M Ballroom Project 3 src
Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +6
reported
2025-10-20FTC Deletes Consumer Protection Guidance on AI Fraud and Surveillance 2 src
Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Trump Appointees · Tech companies
confirmed
2025-10-18Senate Confirms Industry Lobbyist to Lead EPA Chemical Safety Division 2 src
United States Senate · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
confirmed
2025-10-15OCC Conditionally Approves Erebor Bank Charter in Record Four Months 6 src
Palmer Luckey · Joe Lonsdale · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · +4
confirmed
2025-10-11Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Amasses $141M War Chest to Shape 2026 Elections After Defeating Sherrod Brown 3 src
Coinbase · Sherrod Brown
reported
2025-10-10Analysis Finds 40+ Trump Administration Appointees With Fossil Fuel Industry Ties 2 src
Chris Wright · Doug Burgum · Trump Administration · Public Citizen
reported
2025-10-10Musk's Boring Company Accused of 800 Environmental Violations in Las Vegas 2 src
Elon Musk
reported
2025-10-07White House Provides 'Concierge Service' to Fossil Fuel Industry 2 src
Fossil Fuel Industry · White House
reported
2025-10-07White House Withdraws CFTC Nominee Brian Quintenz After Winklevoss Conflict 2 src
White House · CFTC
reported
2025-10-05RFK Jr.'s Legal Associate Aaron Siri Advances Anti-Vaccine Lawsuits While Influencing HHS 2 src
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
reported
2025-09-26Grover Norquist and 35 Conservative Groups Urge Trump to Let ACA Tax Credits Expire While Opposing Corporate Tax Credit Expirations 4 src
Grover Norquist · Americans for Tax Reform · Americans for Prosperity · David McIntosh · +1
confirmed
2025-09-26White House Solicits Input on Dismantling AI Regulations to Boost Industry 2 src
White House
reported
2025-09-23Meta Launches Super PAC to Fight AI Regulation at State Level 2 src
Meta · Mark Zuckerberg
reported
2025-09-23Senator Markey Alleges Energy Secretary Wright Using Position to Benefit Former Nuclear Firm Oklo 2 src
Chris Wright · Ed Markey · Department of Energy
reported
2025-09-22DOJ Eliminates Consumer Protection Branch, Guts Civil Rights Division Enforcement 4 src
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
confirmed
2025-09-22Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Humphrey's Executor, Review Trump's Power to Fire Agency Heads 2 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission · +1
reported
2025-09-22Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire FTC Commissioner Slaughter, Threatens Independent Agencies 2 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission
reported
2025-09-19SEC Drops Fraud Cases Against Trump Clemency Recipients, Abandoning Victims 2 src
Paul Atkins · Devon Archer · Trevor Milton · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1
reported