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Recent Cases
2013
CRE: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Position 1--Against Hospital Mergers; Position 2--For Hospital Mergers
CMS Applies Same-Sex Couple Policy To Exchanges, But Not Medicaid
White Hat Bias Documented in 3rd Data Quality Act Request for Correction Filed by PavementCouncil.org
FTC Martin Gaynor is Advised That A Key Study on Hospital Mergers Is Inaccurate
PCTC Files 3rd Information Request
Of Mollusks and Men: The Wilderness Act and Drakes Bay Oyster
Company
NHTSA admits 85% helmet effectiveness claim violates Data Quality Act
European Studies on Bees are not Compliant with the Data Quality Act
Request for Reconsideration of Information Quality Act Request for Correction
Regarding Impacts of Biofuel Mandates on Global Hunger and Mortality
Drakes Bay: Integrity in Information Quality
Complaints
Jaguars and junk science
Helmet safety claims overstated
Republican report: Critical Thinking on Climate
Change
Data Quality is not an Act, it is a Habit
Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle, and Nonroad Technical Amendments
H.R. 2122, Regulatory Accountability Act of 2013
Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE) Files Amicus Curiae Brief
Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE) Files Amicus Curiae Brief
2012
DQA Atrazine
DQA Buffalo
NASA GISS caught changing past data again – violates Data Quality Act
911 Directed Energy, NIST Data Quality Act - Jerry Leaphart.mp4
DQA Articles
Study Shows Fracking Emissions Lower than EPA Estimates
Northern Dynasty Comments at Public Hearings on the EPA's Draft Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment Report
CRE Briefs NAS/NRC Review Committee on Data Quality Standards
Senators Seek Review Of Inspector's Work On Drilling Report
Atrazine and the Roots of ALEC's State Data Quality Act
Sometimes Data Quality is the Law
Styrene Makers Fight Carcinogen Ruling
AHRC project Understanding Information Quality
Standards and their Challenges (2011-2013)
House Republicans subpoena documents about Obama administration's deep-water moratorium
Regulation Creates Jobs?
2011
Ravalli County commissioner to speak at wolf coordination meeting
Industry Signals Data Law Attack On EPA Air Rules Over Formaldehyde Risks
Vitter Calls on White House to Account for “Scientific Misconduct” in Federal Agencies
Request for Correction 40 CFR §302, Designation, Reportable Quantities, and Notification
Public Interest Groups Challenge Misleading Government Information Used to Justify Ethanol Mandates and Subsidies
EPA Biofuel Mandates Intensify World Hunger
House subcommittee holds hearing on environmental regulation and its impact on the economy
Daily Caller on DQA Peer Review
The EPA's Endangerment Finding Is Very Endangered
EPA’s Internal Watchdog Says EPA’s Climate Change Science Is Sloppy
2010
Happy Birthday Wishes to the Data Quality Act
New Senate Bill Would Ensure Quality Control In Climate Data
Groups sue to block CSA 2010
Conservative leaders attack Browner, Administration and Upton on climate science and clean energy
Editorial: Drilling Moratorium Lives
Center for Regulatory Effectiveness on FDA's Public Participation Program: Forcing the Public to Review Discredited Studies
National Cattlemens Beef Association States Serious Concerns in Comments Submitted to USDA on GIPSA Rule
How Effective are Pre-Appeal Brief Conferences?
A Combustible Mix For White House: Gulf Oil Spill And Politics
Edit Made Error In Drilling-Freeze Memo
All 2010 articles
2009
The Great Cranberry Scare of 1959
DOT requires third party data to meet DQA guidelines
Holmes Crossing RFR Response
Complaint About Information Quality
Usability and Accessibility Expert Review for the CSPI Process Asset Library (PAL)
Internal Web site
Small Businesses Have a Champion on First Coast
Understanding the Role of Science in Regulation
Controversial EPA Ruling Linked to 'Climategate' E-mails
Do humans influence temperature records?
Independent Panel Supports Fish Agency Science
All 2009 articles
2008
Bleep the science! What about the law?
Change for America on Science and Tech Policy, Part 4: The Office of Science and Technology Policy
Travel Management Directives; Forest Service Manual 2350, 7700, and 7710 and Forest Service Handbook 7709.55
The Greatest Cause?
What really ticks me off about the McCain/Palin health plan
Drug czar attacks!
“Doubt Is Their Product”, the One Book To Read If You Want To Understand the Fight
Are McCain/Palin hazardous to your health? Oh, Yeah!
ISO-8000 Data Quality - something climate science could benefit from
Republican War on Science
All 2008 articles
2007
Consumer groups lodge complaint about FCC studies
Son of Shelby
DQA at the FCC
Florida Panther Information
Everybody wants to get into the [Data Quality] Act II
Medical marijuana group moves to hasten outcome in federal lawsuit
WHO fails to use quality evidence in recommendations
Former Nixon/Reagan administration official tells FCC to deep-six Localism Study once more
Turning the Tables with Mary Jane
Should Government be forced to tell the truth?
All 2007 articles
2006
Information Quality Act: Expanded Oversight and Clearer Guidance by the Office of Management and Budget Could Improve Agencies' Implementation of the Act, GAO-06-765
The Government Pseudoscience Jig is Up - Data Quality Act
E-Rulemaking and Data Quality
ViroPharma Pursues Citizen Petition to Block FDA Approval of Generic Vancomycin
'A Regulation on Regulations'
Nanotechnology: Data Quality Act Strikes Again
Protecting Special Interests in the Name of "Good Science"
Business Thinks Data Rule Isn't Worth Its Salt
All 2006 articles
2005
Corporate Science Politicization
Science Experiment: Industries Are Using a Landmark Case and a 2001 Law to Block Regulation, Critics Say
Misuse(s) of the Information Quality Act
Accounting For Science: The Independence Of Public Research In The New, Subterranean Administrative Law
Industry Lobbyist Blows Smoke For Medical Marijuana Advocates
"Hungry? Eat an Environmentalist": From Earth Day to
Regulatory Reform, 1970-1980
NGO's Use The Data Quality Act
Agency Admits Panther Whistleblower Was Right
All 2005 articles
2004
Former EPA General Counsel Recommends Data Quality Reforms
Is Environmental Data the Missing Link?
Save the Endangered Species Act
FEDS VS. MEDS
U.S. District Court Rules HHS Data Quality Petition Denial is Not Judicially Reviewable
Regulations law wouldn’t apply to NOAA under Senate measure
The Neutered CRS Report On The Data Quality Act
Paralysis by Analysis: Jim Tozzi's regulation to end all regulation.
'Data Quality' Law Is Nemesis Of Regulation
All 2004 articles
2003 - 1997
Information Quality and the Law, or, How to Catch a Difficult Horse
Read CRE's Legislative Working Papers on Data Access and Data Quality
House Initiates Action on Data Quality
Based upon the recommendations of CRE, the House incorporated a Data
Quality provision in the report accompanying the FY 1999 Treasury and
General Government Appropriations Act (H.R. 4104) that urged OMB to
develop policy and procedural guidance to federal agencies in order
to ensure and maximize the "quality," "objectivity," "utility," and
"integrity" of information which the federal government disseminates
to the pubic. The Senate followed the House's lead, and relevant language
was included in the conference report to Pub. Law No. 105-277. The House
later included nearly identical mandatory language in the FY 2001 Treasury
and General Government Appropriations Act (H.R. 5658) which statutorily
directs OMB to issue guidelines for Data Quality, and this provision
has been incorporated into the FY 2001 Consolidated Appropriations Act
(H.R. 4577). CRE anticipates passage of this important provision that
will set government-wide standards for information quality, including
opportunity to petition agencies for correction of information that
does not meet such standards.
Click here
to read more, including the Data Quality language from the FY 1999 House
bill and Conference Report, the FY 2001 House bill and Conference Report,
as well as CRE's Legislative Working Papers on Data Access and Data Quality.
President
Signs Data Quality Legislation (Federal Data Quality Act (FDQA)) (Public
Law 106-554 Section 515)
The Congress has passed and the President has
signed important new Data Quality legislation as part of the FY 2001 Consolidated
Appropriations Act (Public Law 106-554). Building upon the Data Quality
report language contained in the FY 1999 Omnibus Appropriations Act (P.L.
105-277), this new provision requires OMB to develop government-wide standards
for the quality of information used and disseminated by the federal government,
with such standards to be completed not later than September 30, 2001. OMB
must also include a mechanism through which the interested public can petition
agencies to correct information which does not meet the OMB standard. Congress
has provided for broad input in developing the Data Quality standard, mandating
that OMB shall seek "public and Federal agency involvement."
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to read more, including the Statutory Language for Data Quality and Past
Report Language
Data Quality:
Partners of Washington, D.C. Law Firm Author Article on Impacts of Tozzi
v. DHHS Case: CRE Sees Major Implications for Data Quality Act
Partners at Bergeson & Campbell, P.C., a D.C. law firm specializing
in chemical, medical device, and diagnostic product approval and regulation,
recently authored an article entitled "The Tozzi Decision: Another
Arrow in Manufacturers' Quiver in Product Defense Wars." Although the
article emphasized the importance of the court's decision for designations
in the National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens Program,
CRE believes that it will have even greater significance for judicial
review under the Data Quality Act. For example, the opinion provides
precedent for standing when information disseminated by a federal agency
is causing harm to a company or person to whom the information relates.
Click
to read the Bergeson & Campbell article on Tozzi v. DHHS from the
EPA Administrative Law Reporter
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Washington Legal
Foundation (WLF) Article Seeks Increased Judicial Review of Agency Science
Alan Raul and Julie Zampa, of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, recently
authored a WLF Legal Backgrounder entitled "Deeper Judicial Scrutiny Needed
for Agencies' Use of Science." This thought-provoking article analyzed
new ground broken by the Tozzi v. DHHS case in terms of expanding judicial
review of federal agencies' use of science. Data Quality Act guidelines
are also discussed as a positive step to improve transparency of agency
decisionmaking and the quality of agency science. However, the article
notes that courts have adopted very inconsistent approaches in conducting
reviews of agency science, with some serious and probative, but others
overly deferential. The authors conclude that the Tozzi case took a valuable
step by increasing availability of judicial review, one which courts must
build upon by exercising these enhanced powers so as to review agency
science in a more consistent, predictable, and probative manner.
Click to review the WLF Legal Backgrounder
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to submit a comment
CRE
Regulatory Services
Risk Policy Report
Publishes Article on the Federal Information Triangle
Risk Policy Report, a preeminent publication in the field of risk analysis,
has published an article on the Federal Information Triangle tracing
its origins to the creation of OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs and its attendant regulatory statutes, the Paperwork Reduction
Act and the Data Quality Act. The Risk Policy Report is a publication
of Inside Washington Publishers.
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to read article.
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