| 1982-06-14 | DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness
4 src William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1982-02-09 | Reagan Appoints Robert Bork to DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Positioning Antitrust Revolution Author for Supreme Court
3 src Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals · Federalist Society · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1981-04-13 | Reagan Appoints William Baxter as Antitrust Chief, Enforcement Collapses as Chicago School Takes Control
4 src Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-28 | Reagan Appoints James Watt as Interior Secretary - Oil Industry Capture
5 src Ronald Reagan · James Watt |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-20 | Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation
4 src Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Robert Bork · Department of Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Heritage Foundation's "Mandate for Leadership" Becomes Reagan Administration Blueprint
4 src Heritage Foundation · Ronald Reagan · Edwin Meese · James Watt | | confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Environmental Deregulation: Systematic Dismantling of Protections
3 src Ronald Reagan · James Watt · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Department of Interior |
| confirmed |
| 1980-12-11 | Superfund Law Passes But Industry Successfully Builds In Weaknesses and Delays
3 src Jimmy Carter · Chemical Manufacturers Association · American Petroleum Institute · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Banking Industry Launches Systematic Campaign to Erode Glass-Steagall Act
3 src Federal Reserve Board · Alan Greenspan |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | NLRB Systemic Underfunding and Weak Enforcement Enables Corporate Union-Busting
3 src National Labor Relations Board · U.S. Congress · Reagan Administration |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | ALEC Begins Tobacco Industry Partnership for Legislative Influence
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 1978-06-22 | Labor Law Reform Act Killed by Filibuster After Business Roundtable Lobbying Blitz
3 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · AFL-CIO · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1977-07-01 | Exxon Internal Climate Research Program Confirms Human-Caused Global Warming
3 src ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Department of Justice Announces Abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement, Adopting Chicago School Critique
4 src Department of Justice · Robert Bork · Federal Trade Commission · Chicago School of Economics |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Edwin Feulner Becomes Heritage Foundation President, Beginning 36-Year Tenure Building Conservative Policy Infrastructure
4 src Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Richard Scaife · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Enacted, Establishing Federal Preemption of State Employee Benefit Regulation
3 src U.S. Congress · Gerald Ford |
| confirmed |
| 1973-12-28 | Endangered Species Act Signed, Industry Groups Immediately Begin Weakening Campaign
3 src Richard Nixon · American Farm Bureau Federation |
| confirmed |
| 1973-10-01 | Trilateral Commission Founded by David Rockefeller
3 src Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1972-10-18 | Clean Water Act Passes Over Nixon Veto After Industry Fails to Block Strong Provisions
3 src Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · Chemical Manufacturers Association · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1972-03-01 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Founded
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America |
| confirmed |
| 1971-01-01 | Oregon Passes Nation's First Forest Practices Act, Drafted by Timber Industry to Preempt Federal Regulation
7 src | | confirmed |
| 1965-11-30 | Ralph Nader Publishes Unsafe at Any Speed Exposing Auto Industry's Deadly Design Choices
3 src General Motors · Ford Motor Company |
| confirmed |
| 1962-09-27 | Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring, Chemical Industry Launches Coordinated Attack Campaign
3 src Monsanto |
| confirmed |
| 1960-01-18 | Congressional Report Finds 1,400 Retired Military Officers Employed by Top Defense Contractors
2 src House Armed Services Committee · General Dynamics |
| confirmed |
| 1949-08-10 | Louis Johnson Exonerated in B-36 Scandal Despite Convair Board Service and Contract Awards
3 src Louis Johnson · House Armed Services Committee · U.S. Air Force |
| confirmed |
| 1946-08-01 | Atomic Energy Act Creates AEC, Establishes Unprecedented Peacetime Secrecy Regime
3 src U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · General Electric |
| confirmed |
| 1946-06-11 | Administrative Procedure Act Codifies Regulatory Process, Creates Industry Capture Opportunities
3 src U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · American Bar Association · Federal Agencies | | confirmed |
| 1942-04-28 | Renegotiation Act Enables Limited War Profit Recovery After Corporate Resistance
3 src U.S. Congress · U.S. War Department · Defense contractors · Truman Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1942-03-26 | Standard Oil-IG Farben Cartel Exposed, Senator Truman Calls It Treason
3 src Harry Truman · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1940-10-08 | Excess Profits Tax Passed with Corporate Lobbying Loopholes
3 src U.S. Congress · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Treasury Department · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1936-06-19 | Robinson-Patman Act Prohibits Price Discrimination to Protect Small Retailers from Chain Store Power
4 src U.S. Congress · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1934-07-02 | Joseph Kennedy Appointed First SEC Chairman - Wall Street Insider to Police Wall Street
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Securities and Exchange Commission · Wall Street | | confirmed |
| 1933-06-16 | National Industrial Recovery Act Creates NRA Blue Eagle Program, Enabling Corporate Self-Regulation
9 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1927-02-25 | McFadden Act Perpetuates Banking Fragmentation, Prohibits Interstate Branching
3 src Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve | | confirmed |
| 1922-04-07 | Albert Fall Secretly Grants Teapot Dome Oil Reserve to Harry Sinclair Without Competitive Bidding
3 src Albert Fall | | confirmed |
| 1922-01-01 | Holding Company Proliferation Enables Corporate Consolidation and Regulatory Evasion
3 src J.P. Morgan | | confirmed |
| 1921-05-31 | Harding Transfers Naval Oil Reserves to Interior Department
3 src Warren G. Harding · Albert Fall | | confirmed |
| 1920-06-05 | Jones Act Establishes Shipping Protectionism Still Harming Consumers Today
3 src U.S. Congress · Woodrow Wilson | | confirmed |
| 1911-03-25 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Kills 146, Exposes Corporate Negligence
6 src Frances Perkins |
| confirmed |
| 1907-11-02 | Roosevelt Approves U.S. Steel Acquisition of Tennessee Coal & Iron During Panic, Exposing Reform Limits
3 src Theodore Roosevelt · J.P. Morgan · Henry Clay Frick · U.S. Steel Corporation | | confirmed |
| 1899-01-01 | Standard Oil Trust Controls 90% of U.S. Oil Refining - Monopoly Power Peak
3 src John D. Rockefeller |
| confirmed |