‘Data Quality’ Law is Nemesis of Regulation

 

A last minute addition to an unrelated piece of legislation has created a tool for attacking the science used by federal agencies as a basis for new regulations. Industry has embraced the Data Quality Act to challenge 32 major proposals, including a successful assault on efforts to restrict the use of the herbicide atrazine which has been shown to function as an endocrine disruptor in frogs. Click here to read the article.

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