Andrew Leahey ⚖️

Rejection?! Must be nice! I'll have you know I can be *completely ignored* with dramatically less water and electricity usage than your average data center.

US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters Companies will pay for upgrades and new electricity generation in agreement to mitigate concerns of rising bills

Oh a pledge. Cool. How durable and enforceable of them.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My hunch would be that if we sliced it more granularly by agency and market effect or sector, there’d be significant changes from one admin to the next.

Obviously clean energy regulatory action fell off a cliff in 2025, but if you ever wanted to put numbers to it...

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Comment periods appear to be holding steady, more or less. Obviously Trump II is working with quite a bit smaller n here.

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Both fantastic suggestions, thanks so much Jonathan!

And Regulatory Velocity:

Regulatory velocity measures how long agencies take to move from proposing a rule (NPRM) to issuing a final rule. This metric captures how quickly regulatory obligations are created and made legally binding.

frtracker.app/velocity?mon...

Secondarily we have: a "Taking Effect" lens. There: Final rules with upcoming effective dates. These are regulations that have been published and will change the law on the dates shown.

frtracker.app/taking-effect

FRTracker's "Daily Delta" gives insight into comment periods, recent FR documents, CFR changes, and "obligation" shifts (our own measurement of specific legal duties) - but I'm sure its missing something.

Or maybe a lot of somethings.

Feedback much appreciated.

frtracker.app/delta?days=1

Admin law friends: if you were looking for an empirical lens into what is going on in the regulatory world today, what would you be looking for?

California SALT Deduction Proposal Is More Clever Than Helpful Opinion: A proposal to reclassify California's vehicle sales tax as a licensing fee would do little to change its

CA has never been shy about creative tax policy. Its latest excursion in the SALT wars, a proposal to reclassify vehicle sales taxes as licensing fees, is a crafty end-run around federal SALT deduction limitations that’s being pitched as middle-class relief.

news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights...

Selective Skepticism and COVID-19 Vaccines

Selective skepticism, necessary assumptions, burdens of proof, and scope shifts abound.

open.spotify.com/episode/1TZr...

Join the PIVOT the Game beta Available on iOS

Opening a few more beta slots for PIVOT the game on iOS. Changes are mostly cosmetic in the latest.

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Also I know WW3 just got a little bit closer to being a reality, this kind of comparative nonsense is what I'm working on to keep me sane.

Always looking for new lenses into the data we've aggregated at TOSTracker. Presenting, clause adoption over time:

How the prevalence of key legal clauses has changed across 101479 tracked documents, 1997–2026.

tostracker.app/time-series

Alt Samman: Nah, come on guys he obviously didn’t know.

Alt Samman: I feel for the guy.

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

If their contacts hygiene is anything like mine, the world’s elites continue to get annual “Jeffrey Epstein’s Birthday” reminder on their calendars.

Trump’s New Land Port Maintenance Tax Shouldn’t Be Tariff Plan B Opinion: The Trump administration’s “land port maintenance tax

The Trump admin’s floated 0.125% “land port maintenance tax,” pitched as a fix to align shippers using land ports with those subject to the HMF, looks like contingency planning now that SCOTUS has struck down the administration’s tariff program under IEEPA.

news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights...

The Trump boom is always just over the hill beyond another election.

I’m surprised he hasn’t come full circle and just claimed he was doing so to illustrate that it wasn’t true.

Necessary or Sufficient? The Logic Behind the EPA’s Climate Rollback

Necessary or Sufficient? The Logic Behind the EPA’s Climate Rollback

open.spotify.com/episode/3Sy8...

and typing; like that; roger; should go outside; find a sewer; and flush; himself down it; we'd all prefer it

‘Abolish ICE’, ‘Caleb Chilliams’ Among Winners of Annual Snowplow Naming Contest The other winners of the fourth annual contest were Stephen Coldbert, Pope Frío XIV, The Blizzard of Oz, Svencoolie and Caleb Chilliams, Chicago officials announced.

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

Week in Insights: Dutch Unrealized Gains Tax Is a Surprise Reform This week, experts examined Congress’ DC tax decoupling vote, the IRS Independent Office of Appeals’ potential priorities, and more.

The Dutch get a surprise wealth tax.

news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

FRTracker is a tool for analyzing the Federal Register and CFR. It extracts compliance obligations from regulatory text using deterministic, rule-based methods. It maps public comments to specific reg provisions and links PRs to final rules with structural diffs.

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I solved PIVOT Edition No. 53 in 22 moves — can you beat that?
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And here are just open comment periods.

frtracker.app/comments/open

That's what has happened over a 1 or 3 month perspective, backward and forward looking.

Here is what went on across all agencies in the last 7/14/30 days.

frtracker.app/cliff-notes

Trying to sort out what the best lens into regulatory data is -- or, more accurately, the 10 best. Depending on whether you're a researcher, a journalist, or a regulated entity, you could be coming in from a half dozen different views. Anyway, here's one:

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