Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a data quality petition with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers August 20, 2003, alleging a monthly status report does not meet OMB or the Department of Defense's data quality guidelines Background

In an effort to avoid a system of government-imposed secrecy, a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel recently recommended biologists engage in a system of self-censorship. The panel advocated a process of review, at the university and federal levels, for research that could help terrorists make biological weapons.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) recently amended its data quality lawsuit against the White House over a global warming study, adding violations of two statues – the Administrative Procedure Act and the U.S. Global Change Research Act.

A series of industry sponsored data quality petitions challenged U.S. Forest Service documents restricting logging and forest use in order to protect the Northern Goshawk, a hawk listed in several regions as a "sensitive species." The Washington Contract Loggers Association, Northern Arizona Loggers Association, Coalition of Arizona/New Mexico Counties and a forester company W.K. Olsen & Associates jointly submitted the petitions this past January.