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Definitive Data Quality Articles

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2008

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

FDA Favors Industry Science on BPA

ISO-8000 Data Quality - something climate science could benefit from

Big Data, Environmental Data

Data Quality Act (Social Security News)

Here is something to help you fight CPS

Case #2007-056 - Dr. Buttar's Blog

Bet You Didn’t Know What DQA Is?

A Comment On The Report “Unified Synthesis Product Global Climate Change in the United States” By Joseph D. Aleo

Post mortem on the Mauna Loa CO2 data eruption

The Stoned Crab: Bet You Didn't Know What DQA Is?

Data Quality Act: An Obstacle to Effective Environmental Regultions?

EPA Draws Suite Of Challenges Over Endocrine Chemical Testing Proposal

Regulatory Science and the Data Quality Act

Impact of the Data Quality Act on Decisionmaking at the Environmental Protection Agency

City petitions EPA for tougher pollution counting, Press Release

NCMR 12: Historical and Contemporary Challenges, continued

A chance to challenge junk science?

IN HAEC VERBA: Full Text of 6/13/2008 Filing Challenging City of St. Augustine's Latest Secretive Consent Decree With FDEP Over Illegal Dumping Case

FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Michaels: Doubt Is Their Product

Keep ball rolling on open records

How to Cook a Graph in Three Easy Lessons

History of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Groups Filing Intent To Sue EPA Over Standards For Smog

Scientists Combat OMB Threat

Doubt is Their Product - Early Reviews are In

Unbalancing the scales of scientific objectivity

Doubt Is Their Product (David Michaels, Oxford University Press)

The Federal Data Quality Act's Impact on the Environmental Health Regulatory Process

Doubt is Their Product

What About Congress?

Anchorage Port Plan: Politics and Pork

Tozzi V HHS

Groups seek more review of port expansion

Wolf Delisting And Designation As Distinct Population Segment

CDC Has Lost Control of the Autism Argument

Crooked Timber

The Monkey and The Organgrinder

The Manufacture of Uncertainty

Republican Foundations and Think Tanks

Assessment On Program Operations Of Cumulative Impact Of External Requirements Added Since 1977

Industry Groups Are Fighting Government Regulation By Formenting Scientific Uncertainty

NIOSH: Worker Exposure To Nanoparticles

Miner Safety Bill Clears House, Bush Veto Looms

Correcting the Record on the Data Quality Act (see page 2 of pdf)

Activists File Rare Data Act Challenge Against EPA Refinery Air Rule

NASA Evasion of Quality Control Procedures

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?

Other 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

Other 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

Other 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

Other 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."
  • Click 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
  • Click to submit a comment
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  • 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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