The company suspected in a cyclospora outbreak gave $2.2 million to GOP infrastructure — including $1 million to a Trump-aligned PAC days after the administration delayed the food tracing rule it would have been required to follow. Thousands are now sick.
The NRC is proposing to eliminate the ALARA principle — the decades-old requirement that nuclear plants keep radiation exposure as low as reasonably achievable. The nuclear industry has lobbied for this for years. The people who will absorb the residual risk live in fence-line communities with no lo
The Trump administration refused to publish a multi-year international alcohol study. The findings — showing cancer risk at light-to-moderate drinking levels — would have triggered mandatory updates to federal dietary guidelines. The alcohol industry has been lobbying against exactly that outcome fo
Airlines for America CEO Chris Sununu says Spirit's bankruptcy proves regulators should approve more airline mergers. His members are the carriers that benefit most when budget competitors disappear.
The EPA's proposed rollback of Biden-era PFAS drinking water limits doesn't dispute the science linking forever chemicals to cancer. It simply removes the legal requirement to act on that science — and the industry that spent decades causing the contamination spent years lobbying for exactly this ou
Amazon's dominance over Western retail isn't a story about innovation. It's the result of predatory pricing, systematic regulatory capture, and two decades of antitrust enforcement that prioritized short-term consumer prices over competitive market structure — until the competition was already gone.
Justin Sun's $45 million lawsuit against the Trump family's World Liberty Financial alleges his crypto tokens were frozen and held hostage — exposing how the president's commercial empire operates in a regulatory vacuum no one has moved to fill.
Two years after a fatal mine explosion, Alabama's coal safety commission is now chaired by a coal executive. Residents call it regulatory capture with a body count.
Texas is destroying thousands of hemp businesses to protect alcohol industry profits, revealing how regulatory capture works at the state level.