Sentences with phrase «federal watchdog»

A non-partisan federal watchdog says climate change is already costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars each year, with those costs expected to rise as devastating storms, floods, wildfires and droughts become more frequent in the coming decades.

Public Citizen, lawmaker say federal watchdog office overseeing human subjects» protections is not sufficiently independent

There seems to be no consensus on the answer, although a range of estimates were presented at a conference called last month * by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.

That's according to a new report, out Wednesday, from the non-partisan federal watchdog, the Government Accountability Office.

Earl Devaney, chair of a newly appointed federal watchdog agency, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, has warned that without precautionary measures, as much as 7 percent of the stimulus package will end up in the hands of bad actors.

USA federal watchdog started an investigation over the use of fake female accounts by infamous «cheating» website Ashley Madison.

On Top of the News Missing, Messy Teacher - Prep Data Stumps Even Federal Watchdog Ed Week Teacher Beat 7/24/15

Federal watchdog Daniel Therrien, as well as his counterparts in Alberta and British Columbia, were among 23 privacy commissioners around the world who signed an open letter calling for entities such as the Apple App Store and Google Play to display privacy details of their merchandise more prominently.

Turner, a social scientist at City University of New York / Queens College, offered his cautionary story last month at a conference * called by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.

Federal watchdogs have plenty to say about the well - being of big banks, but very little about the financial health of regular Americans.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday launched a searchable database of individuals who have been targeted by the federal watchdog for allegedly breaking trading laws.

Recently, though, former FTC officials have said that Facebook's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica may have violated the company's legal agreement with the federal watchdog agency.

Energy companies say they can police themselves, without a federal watchdog.

A federal watchdog office has dismissed allegations that last year National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials improperly interfered with another federal office's oversight of the ethics of a controversial NIH - funded study involving premature infants.

The dispute has divided the bioethics community and pitted the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funded the infant study, against the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), the federal watchdog for research ethics.

He'll be an investigator for the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight, a Washington, D.C., federal watchdog, where he'll focus on health care.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- A federal watchdog says White House counselor Kellyanne Conway violated the federal law prohibiting government officials from using their positions to influence political campaigns.

Yet, the Federal watchdog agency charged with protecting the public declined to investigate, ostensibly because Bernie was such a prominent and well - respected figure in the financial services industry.

Poll: Few aware of embattled consumer watchdog — Consumers would probably miss the federal watchdog agency if Republicans close or disarm it, but only 17 percent are aware of it... (See CFPB poll)

Recently, though, former FTC officials have said that Facebook's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica may have violated the company's legal agreement with the federal watchdog agency.

News reports about Facebook's role in the aggressive form of data collection also have raised serious questions about whether the company violated a landmark consent decree with a federal watchdog agency designed to prevent privacy violations.

The Federal Housing Administration insured about $ 1.9 billion worth of mortgages in 2016 that it never should have, according to a new report from a federal watchdog.

After all they are a Federal watchdog agency.