Industry Groups Urge OMB To Allow Data Challenges Under Risk Guide

Industry groups are seeking the right to pursue information quality challenges against EPA and other agencies' risk assessments if they do not meet standards established in a proposed Office of Management & Budget (OMB) guidance on how federal agencies should conduct risk assessments, even though federal courts do not allow such lawsuits. Environmentalists, however, are urging OMB to withdraw the guidance entirely, claiming the document itself and any related information quality challenges would undermine risk assessments used to support federal...