The Biden Administration on Monday unveiled a new, multi-agency regulatory initiative to target corporate practices that officials claim are designed to waste consumers’ time and needlessly burden them with red tape, in order to maximize profits.

“I think we can all relate to this,” White House domestic policy advisor Neera Tanden told reporters Friday.

Elon Musk’s social media site X could face major fines over its alleged failure to police dangerous content – the latest move in an ongoing crackdown by European Union regulators against major tech firms.

The commission had announced last December that they were probing X over the spread of illegal content and misinformation related to the Israel-Hamas war.

The European Commission, the EU’s competition watchdog, is set to hit X with formal charges in the coming days, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

In 2018, British regulators sanctioned the UK arm of online gambling giant Flutter (FLTRF.L) after it failed to catch an astonishing anomaly. The head of an animal shelter had been embezzling money from his employer to fund his bets, losing what the charity said was more than half a million dollars over four years. The gambling watchdog forced Flutter to pay about $2.8 million for not protecting customers from obviously uncontrolled gambling and not stopping the use of stolen money.

The Supreme Court on June 27 was right to place on hiatus something that was both figuratively and literally another attempted power grab by President Joe Biden’s hyperaggressive regulators.

While the legal result was appropriate, the practical results of the decision could be even better. The decision could save both money and lives.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday proposed a new rule to address excessive heat in the workplace, warning — as tens of millions of people in the U.S. are under heat advisories — that high temperatures are the country’s leading weather-related killer.

The Biden administration plans to require employers to give workers shaded rest areas and water when temperatures soar, part of a proposed rule that comes as temperature records fall nationwide—as some states have prevented local governments from providing similar protections in recent months.

Under proposed regulations for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, employers in the U.S. will be required to monitor their workers and provide access to shade, water and rest breaks, the White House said.

The Biden administration is announcing new steps to combat extreme heat on Tuesday, including introducing the first federal safety standard addressing excessive heat in the workplace and allocating nearly $1 billion to help communities protect against natural disasters.

On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned a long-standing legal doctrine in the US, making a transformative ruling that could hamper federal agencies’ ability to regulate all kinds of industry. Six Republican-appointed justices voted to overturn the doctrine, called Chevron deference, a decision that could affect everything from pollution limits to consumer protections in the US. 

The Supreme Court on Friday dramatically clawed back power from federal regulators by overturning decades of precedent that had been set in the 1984 Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council case.

In a 6-3 decision that again split along ideological lines, the high court ripped up the Chevron precedent, which called for judicial deference to agencies in situations where the law is unclear.

As a result, it will become much easier for the court system to overrule regulations and for judges to issue their best interpretation of the law.