After years of battling regulation, the auto industry reached a deal with the Obama administration to boost fuel economy standards and cut emissions sharply starting this year and extending to 2025.
In Mississippi, the state's only abortion clinic is battling new regulations that its leader says could force it to close.
Uber operates in more than 150 cities in 64 countries, battling established regulations around licenced taxi drivers in nearly all of those, and establishing its own army of (at last count, June 2015) at least 250 lobbyists across the US alone.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, are battling new regulations limiting travel to scientific meetings.
They have exerted enormous influence on American politics, battling government regulation and casting doubt on the urgency of climate change.
He never took a directorship in the US, though, saying in interviews that he did not wish to battle union regulations on rehearsal time.
The decision is a victory for Tonia Edwards and Bill Main, the married couple who together operate the (illegal, until Friday) Segway tour company Segs in the City and have battled the regulations since 2010.
Since then he and Carhartt-Harris have battled prohibitive regulations to conduct groundbreaking studies into the effects of drugs including MDMA and psilocybin on the brain.
There's a history of corporations asserting their First Amendment right to pay for political speech (usually through ads) -- for example, in the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court case -- and to battle certain regulations.
Kennedy, who views this saga as a "national disgrace," has set his sights on changing laws in Missouri next, and plans to battle for regulation across the country.
He's still in combat mode, whether he's battling oppressive government regulation, winning over a recalcitrant seller of a school or dealing with self-inflicted mistakes.
