21.   Congress noticed, and in recent years has passed several laws regulating the industry.

22.   First, the herbal supplement industry is poorly regulated by the FDA.

23.   Gov. George Pataki has proposed a broad consumer protection bill to regulate the industry.

24.   He blames the Office of Pipeline Safety, the federal agency that is supposed to regulate the industry.

25.   He later sued the government over its attempts to regulate the industry.

26.   In effect, it threatens to turn the whole taxi system on its ear, challenging the logic of the way the medallion industry is regulated.

27.   In addition, the agency plans to set up partnerships with universities to train engineers in regulating the industry.

28.   In an effort to address the problem, the EPA and the Agriculture Department released a draft strategy earlier this year to further regulate the industry.

29.   In past years, when the industry was fully regulated, local utilities bought long-term gas contracts.

30.   In the meantime, Georgiann Carsley said a representative of the Federal Trade Commission, which regulates the industry, has talked to her about her complaint.