What Is Regulatory Capture: When Regulators Serve Industry
Regulatory capture occurs when agencies meant to serve the public interest instead advance the interests of the industries they regulate.
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2 corrections applied: Deepwater Horizon's regulator was the Minerals Management Service (MMS), not the Bureau of Land Management | The 80+ rollback figure was an administration-wide NYT tally, not Pruitt's EPA alone
Before(1) The Bureau of Land Management's oversight of oil and gas drilling on federal lands... (2) A 2018 investigation by the New York Times documented that Pruitt's EPA...
After(1) The Minerals Management Service's oversight of oil and gas drilling on federal lands... (2) A 2018 investigation by the New York Times documented that the Trump administration...
Why: Verified live: body text already reads 'The Minerals Management Service's oversight' and 'the Trump administration had rolled back or weakened over 80 environmental rules'; 'Bureau of Land Management' could not be verified against the article. FAQ field decoded and checked, no reference to either fabrication. No further action needed.
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