As we moved on, Susan explained to us that many of the casitas she'd seen so far had been built to conform to the regulations of Operations GreenThumb, a city agency that encourages community gardening.
At the time, the mine was leaching gold with cyanide, Colorado was in a deep recession and its Legislature cut back on enforcement and regulation of mining operations.
Despite its riches, the company exerts significant effort to control regulation of its operations, the drivers who power it, and even the language used to talk about ride-sharing.
Most of all they fret that the spending of federal money on upgrading their tracks will lead the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), the industry watchdog, to impose tough conditions on them and, in effect, to reintroduce regulation of their operations.
And the president, under intense criticism of his energy policies from Republicans and oil industry officials as he faces a re-election contest, has recently taken steps to ease government regulation of oil operations.
It has demonstrated the enduring laxity of federal regulation of offshore operations and has shown the government to be almost wholly at the mercy of BP, the company leasing the rig, to provide the technology, personnel and equipment to stop the bleeding well.
Other California cities have faced problems with the regulation of composting operations.
"Extensive federal regulation of the operations of [the company] exposes [it] to significant and increasing compliance costs and may also expose them to substantial monetary penalties and other sanctions for compliance failures".
Correction: A previous version of this article stated that the Federal Reserve had already closed its consultation period on proposals to reshape the regulation of foreign banks' operations.
