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</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 18.2px;">In May 1980 after finding that they knew the tires were </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); line-height: 18.2px;">defective</span><span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 18.2px;">, the </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); line-height: 18.2px;">NHTSA</span><span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 18.2px;"> fined </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); line-height: 18.2px;">Firestone </span><span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 18.2px;">$500,000 USD, which at that time was the largest </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); line-height: 18.2px;">fine</span><span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 18.2px;"> imposed on any </span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 16.8px;">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_recall" title="Product recall" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">product recall</a> was announced, allowing Explorer owners (and owners of its stablemates) to change the affected tires for others. Many of the recalled tires had been manufactured during a period of strike at Firestone.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controversy#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> A large number of lawsuits<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> have been filed against both Ford and Firestone, some unsuccessful, some settled out of court, and a few successful.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Lawyers for the plaintiffs have argued that both Ford and Firestone knew of the dangers but did nothing, and that specifically Ford knew that the Explorer was highly prone to rollovers. Ford denies these allegations.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Firestone ultimately recalled millions of tires including 2.8 million Firestone Wilderness AT tires.<sup id="cite_ref-tiresafetygroup.com_18-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controversy#cite_note-tiresafetygroup.com-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> According to Firestone's last filing with the National Highway Transportation Administration, only 90,259 of those tires were confirmed as removed from service.<sup id="cite_ref-tiresafetygroup.com_18-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controversy#cite_note-tiresafetygroup.com-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> In November 2013, two recalled Wilderness AT tires were found in Atlanta, Georgia.<sup id="cite_ref-wsbtv.com_19-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controversy#cite_note-wsbtv.com-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a></sup> One of the tires was offered for sale as new at a used tire retail shop.<sup id="cite_ref-wsbtv.com_19-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controversy#cite_note-wsbtv.com-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Following the recall, lawsuits were filed throughout the country. It was estimated that there had been over 250 deaths and 3,000 serious injuries. Because of the number of lawsuits the plaintiffs’ attorneys became concerned that the tire company would not have enough money to pay all of the claims and began looking for other sources of revenue. A principal target were the large tire sellers and services such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sears</a>, Roebuck and Co.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controversy#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a></sup></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 16.8px;">---</span></font></div><div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ford_Explorer_rollover_problem">Ford Explorer rollover problem</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Firestone_Tire_and_Rubber_Company&action=edit§ion=9" title="Edit section: Ford Explorer rollover problem" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></h3><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.92px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controversy" title="Firestone and Ford tire controversy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Firestone and Ford tire controversy</a></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1996, several state agencies in Arizona began experiencing major issues with Firestone tires on Explorers. According to news reports, various agencies demanded new tires, and Firestone conducted an investigation of the complaints, tested the tires and asserted that the tires had been abused or under-inflated.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On September 6, 2000, in a statement before the U.S. Senate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Appropriations_Subcommittee_on_Transportation,Housing_and_Urban_Development,and_Related_Agencies" title="United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Appropriations Transportation subcommittee</a> the president of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_advocacy" title="Consumer advocacy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">consumer advocacy</a> group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Citizen" title="Public Citizen" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Public Citizen</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Claybrook" title="Joan Claybrook" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Joan Claybrook</a>, stated:</p><table class="cquote" role="presentation" style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 17.92px; margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="width: 20px; vertical-align: top; border: none; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 40px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.6em; padding: 10px;">“</td><td style="vertical-align: top; border: none; padding: 4px 10px;">...There are a number of parallels between this recall in 2000 and the 1978 recall of the Firestone 500....there was a documented coverup by Firestone of the 500 defect, spurred by the lack of a Firestone replacement tire. When the coverup was disclosed, the top management of the company was replaced as Firestone was severely damaged in reputation and economically. But a key difference is that the Firestone 500 was used on passenger cars, which rarely rolled over with tire failure.<b> NHTSA documented 41 deaths with the 500, a recall, involving seven million tires.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_Tire_and_Rubber_Company#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[36]</a></sup></b></td><td style="width: 20px; vertical-align: bottom; border: none; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 40px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.6em; text-align: right; padding: 10px;">”</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The report went on to indicate that Ford also had also been complicit, stating that The Ford Motor Company had instructed Firestone to add a nylon ply to the tires it manufactured in Venezuela for additional strength and that Ford had made suspension changes to the Explorer model available in Venezuela. Ford did not specify adding the nylon ply for U.S.-made Firestone tires nor did it change the Explorer suspension on U.S. models at this time.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
An abnormally high failure rate in Firestone's Wilderness AT, Firestone ATX, and ATX II tires resulted in multiple lawsuits, as well as an eventual mandatory recall. In 2001 Bridgestone/Firestone severed its ties to Ford citing a lack of trust. The lack of trust stemmed from concerns that Ford had not heeded warnings by Bridgestone/Firestone relating to the design of the Ford Explorer.<sup id="cite_ref-cnn_37-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_Tire_and_Rubber_Company#cite_note-cnn-37" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[37]</a></sup> In 2006, Firestone announced renewed efforts to recall tires of the same model recalled in 2000 after the tires were linked to recent deaths and injuries. According to Firestone's last filing with the National Highway Transportation Administration,<b> only 90,259 of more than 2.5 million recalled tires were confirmed as removed from service.</b><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_Tire_and_Rubber_Company#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a></sup> In November 2013, two recalled Wilderness AT tires were found in Atlanta, Georgi
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</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see also fordlandia for history; chico mendez</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Firestone and the Warlord," a look at the tangled history of an American corporation and civil war-torn Liberia</font></span><div><span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.propublica.org/article/firestone-and-the-warlord-intro</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Firestone</span> Natural <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rubber</span> Company, LLC is a subsidiary of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Firestone</span> Tire and ... <span class="ft">In 1926, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Liberian</span> government granted <span style="font-weight: bold;">Firestone</span> a 99-year lease for a</span> ...</font></span></a><div class="osl" style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); margin-top: 0px;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&q=related:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_Natural_Rubber_Company+firestone+rubber+liberia&tbo=1&sa=X&ei=zLaZVLMmw9qgBOH6gvAI&ved=0CCUQHzAA" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_Natural_Rubber_Company#History" style="text-decoration: none; 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word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rubber</span> trees (genus Hevea) are tapped on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Firestone</span> Farm in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Liberia</span> to produce high-quality block <span style="font-weight: bold;">rubber</span> to be used in <span style="font-weight: bold;">rubber</span> products around the world<wbr />.</font></span></a></div></div></div></li><li class="g" style="margin: 0px 0px 23px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rc" data-hveid="51" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-oew-firestone29jan29-story.html" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Firestone: Helping or hurting Liberians? - LA Times</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 42em; 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</div><div>Permalink</div><div>Where can a corporate lobbyist hide thirty-two lines of stealth legislation? Right here, between a land transfer to the Gerald R. Ford Foundation and some details about cost-of-living allowances at the Office of Personnel Management, on pages 153 and 154 of the 712-page federal budget for the year 2001. Christened the "Data Quality Act"--one of the many euphemisms employed by the law's supporters--Section 515 presents itself as an innocuous call for federal agencies to improve the accuracy of their data. But the act, which became effective in October 2002, is in fact designed to encumber those agencies and, over time, to hamper their ability to regulate. Passed with no debate and with little public scrutiny, the law is intended not to improve data but, through constant contention, to suppress it.</div><div>
</div><div>Although technically an extension of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Data Quality Act forces regulatory agencies to produce reams of extra paperwork. …</div><div>
</div><div>https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-103124297.html</div><div>
</div><div>uc</div><div><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify; background: transparent;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation">Where can a corporate lobbyist hide thirty-two lines of stealth legislation? Right here, between a land transfer to the Gerald R. Ford Foundation and some details about cost-of-living allowances at the Office of Personnel Management, on pages 153 and 154 of the 712-page federal budget for the year 2001. Christened the "Data Quality <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Act</strong>"--<strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">one</strong> of the many euphemisms employed by the law's supporters--Section 515 presents itself as an innocuous call for federal agencies to improve the accuracy of their data. But the <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">act</strong>, which became effective in October 2002, is in fact designed to encumber those agencies and, over time, to hamper their ability to regulate. Passed with no debate and with little public scrutiny, the law is intended not to improve data but, through constant contention, to suppress it.</p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify; background: transparent;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation">Although technically an extension of the Paperwork Reduction <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Act</strong>, the Data Quality <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Act</strong> forces regulatory agencies to produce reams of extra paperwork. The <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">act</strong> required that the Office of Management and Budget issue guidelines "ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information... disseminated by Federal agencies." When the OMB released these guidelines in February 2002, they consumed some 10,000 words and included definitions of the terms at issue. (Philosophers may be interested to know that "quality" now is officially "an encompassing term comprising utility, objectivity, and integrity.") By October 2002 the individual agencies were required to produce their own guidelines and, more important, to establish "administrative mechanisms" to respond to, keep track of, and deliver reports on any complaints concerning the objectivity, utility, and integrity of their data. If disputed information is found to be out of compliance with these vague requirements, it may now be struck from government use.</p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify; background: transparent;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation">Who would conceive of such a thing? As the only person listed in the <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">act</strong>, the director of the OMB--Mitch Daniels Jr., previously a senior vice president at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly--would be a natural guess, but an inaccurate <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">one</strong>. Nominally, the <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">act's</strong> sponsoring representative was Jo Ann Emerson, Republican of Missouri, a former lobbyist who gained her seat in 1996 after the death of her husband, eight-term congressman Bill Emerson, from lung cancer. But in reality, the <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">act</strong> was written by Jim Tozzi, a current lobbyist whose clients include such corporate citizens as Philip Morris, Bridgestone/Firestone, and Synagro Technologies, a leading disposer of sewage sludge. For Tozzi, the <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">act</strong> is the opening salvo of his latest venture, the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, a for-profit lobbying group whose actual purpose is to render regulations ineffective.</p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify; background: transparent;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation">For data to be "objective" under the OMB's definition, independent scientists should agree on its validity. In practice, this offers limitless opportunity for complaint, because a friendly scientist can always be found to dispute an inconvenient finding. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, for example, has filed a petition under the <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">act</strong> demanding that all references to the National Assessment on Climate Change, which affirmed the existence of global warming, be expunged. The CEI's filing leans heavily on Patrick Michaels, a scientist who has argued for years against global warming on behalf of corporations, most recently through the "Greening Earth Society," which is funded by the coal industry. Jim Tozzi himself has used the <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">act</strong> to demand that the EPA rescind statements about the reproductive effects of atrazine, an herbicide made by his client Syngenta. Tozzi's filing draws on studies paid for by Syngenta and peer-reviewed by a group called EcoRisk, which was founded, according to its website, "with the encouragement [sic] and support of various... private chemical corporations." EcoRisk deems the EPA's data irreproducible.</p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify; background: transparent;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation">The agencies will report to John D. Graham, the administrator of the OMB's information and regulation division. Previously, Graham was the founding director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, the bulk of whose funding comes not from Harvard but from more than 100 corporations. The center's "risk analysis" is chiefly economic, and with few exceptions it has argued that the risks posed by corporate products or pollution are outweighed by the evils of regulation. For example, in 2000, after AT&T Wireless gave $300,000 to study the dangers of handheld cell-phone use while driving, the center found that no regulations were warranted. In elaborating on the OMB's guidelines, Graham has demanded special scrutiny for "influential" data--i.e., data that might prompt regulation--and has noted that even peer review by a scientific journal may not be sufficient to prove quality.</p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify; background: transparent;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation">Finally conservatives and corporate lobbyists have found a bureaucracy they like. With the law in effect, its author, Jim Tozzi, now can devote himself to filing complaints under it. Beyond his attack on the EPA's atrazine study, he has also come to the aid of <b>Bridgestone/Firestone, </b>Goodyear, and the Rubber Manufacturers Association against the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, which is planning to distribute information about tire defects. In his petition, Tozzi demands predissemination review by the manufacturers themselves--perhaps this is "integrity"--and argues, under the "utility" clause, that NHTSA must actually prove that releasing data about unsafe tires is useful. The end result: more paperwork, less information, weaker controls on manufacturers, and fewer safeguards for the public. This, to corporations, is "quality" legislation.</p></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></span></div></div>