The Pandora-ASCAP conflict is familiar: industry incumbents use their superior bargaining power and regulatory pull to thwart upstarts.
Moreover, on almost any measure the volume of regulation has grown, and the number and power of regulatory bodies has increased.
"Such concentration of power in regulatory authorities is unprecedented in European democracies, and it harms media freedom," its media freedom representative, Dunja Mijatovic, said in a statement issued late last year.
The Fed's general counsel wields enormous power over regulatory issues, is a key figure in both the drafting and timing of financial regulations, and even influences legislation.
Most of the city's new powers were regulatory.
Gambling on Osborne's known weakness for glamour projects, Bernstein tossed one after another into the pot Most of the city's new powers were regulatory.
These standards and principles are then incorporated and reflected in the national schemes through their vested powers and regulatory tools.
Shell powered past regulatory hurdles and intense opposition from environmentalists to return to the Chukchi Sea after a disastrous 2012 effort, only to find the results disappointing.
With the act assailed as being beyond Congress' principal regulatory power -- the commerce power -- no one was expecting Obamacare to survive Supreme Court review.
But unlike California, the other states say they have held on to their regulatory power, while ensuring adequate outside power sources should the market tighten.
