The rules proposed on Wednesday handed a partial victory to industry backers.
Despite the Bush victory, many industry experts expect a greater government role in health care in the long run.
The plan proposed by the deposit insurance agency was a partial victory for industry executives and lobbyists who fought against the idea of another special assessment.
President Obama's decision not to proceed with stronger air-quality standards governing ozone is a setback for public health and the environment and a victory for industry and its Republican friends in Congress.
The decision was a setback for public health, a victory for industry, which had lobbied strongly against the standards, and a public embarrassment for the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, who had proposed them.
"Victory's industry friends could pay for the party out of their own pocket," Professor Gillers said, "but she had a duty to reveal their contribution to the public".
But even with that victory, the industry would face more legal pummeling from mounting lawsuits, including an action by the Justice Department seeking to recover hundreds of millions in federal health care costs spent treating tobacco-related ills.
In a partial victory for industry, the justices agreed to decide whether the Environmental Protection Agency went too far when it extended its regulatory power over greenhouse gases beyond cars and trucks.
The IAB, which counts Google and Facebook (and Oath, which owns HuffPost) as members, labeled the removal of the provision their "number one legislative priority" and called it a "a major victory for industry" when it was dropped from the final bill text.
The EPA had also chalked up a number of other legal victories against industry groups to block air pollution and other rules.
