NEW DATA QUALITY SUIT COULD FORCE EPA TO ACT ON DELAYED PETITIONS

EPA could face litigation over its long delays in acting on petitions filed under the Information Quality Act (IQA) over agency air rules and other issues, if medical marijuana advocates succeed in a new IQA lawsuit they are planning to file against the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), legal observers say. If the court accepts the medical marijuana case, the lawsuit would mark the first time a court has heard a dispute over agency inaction under the IQA,...