Enviro health researchers: Could your work be impacted by the Honest Act?

[Nick Shapiro]

Hi all, 

Collaborators at the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) are in the process of writing a report on the potential impacts of the Honest Act, which would limit the EPA to using only data that could be made public for independent analysis, excluding health studies with confidential individual information. Here is a blog post by the Union of Concerned Scientists with more details.  

Maya Anjur-Dietrich (cc'd) is one of the authors on this report (which will be neither for or against the act, merely empirically investigating its potential impacts) and was wondering the following of the Public Lab community:

1) is there anyone that uses or creates data that would affected by the honest act? specifically, would their data no longer be able to be used in supporting regulations?

2) is there anyone that uses data that would be affected by the honest act? specifically would they no longer have access to data needed in their regulatory work?

3) would anyone be willing to talk about a cost assessment of recreating particular studies? either their own or some landmark studies that are particularly important for specific regulations.

Please feel free to get in touch with her directly if you have any insights on the matter. 

Kind thanks, 

Nick + EDGI