The Cardin-Lugar provision is a landmark piece of bipartisan legislation. The final anti- corruption rule implementing the Cardin-Lugar provision passed by the SEC in June 2016 significantly advances international efforts to curb corruption and has been applauded by investors, companies and governments around the world. However, a great deal of misinformation has been spread about the rule. Below you will…
PWYP-US submitted a letter to Speaker Ryan, Minority Leader Pelosi, Chairman Hensarling and Ranking Member Waters concerning S.J. Resolution 9. Read the full letter.
PWYP-US submitted a letter to Majority Leader McConnell, Minority Leader Schumer, Chairman Crapo and Ranking Member Brown concerning S.J. Resolution 9. Read the full letter.
What is the Congressional Review Act?The Congressional Review Act (CRA) (5 U.S.C. §§801-808) was enacted in 1996 and established a mechanism through which Congress can overturn a rule promulgated by a federal agency. Congress is given 60 ‘working days’ once the regulation is submitted to Congress to consider the rule and vote on a ‘resolution of disapproval’. To be successful,…
In 2010, in an effort to empower citizens, better protect and inform investors, reverse the resource curse, and strengthen U.S. national and energy security, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the Cardin-Lugar Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 (Section 1504). The Securities and Exchange Commission released strong, fair final rules in June 2016. Read the single page fact sheet. Read…
Friends of transparency and good governance – it’s time to activate! The regulation implementing the groundbreaking anti-corruption law, the Cardin-Lugar Provision of the Dodd Frank Act (Section 1504), is in critical danger of being repealed by the House and Senate. This law allows citizens in resource rich countries to ‘follow the money’ and hold their governments accountable for graft, waste…
This post also appears on Extract-A-Fact In our first video training session, we presented a walkthrough of how to organize USEITI data for use in the open source mapping software QGIS. Fortunately, that dataset included geographic identifiers called Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) county codes–five digit codes identifying counties and county equivalents throughout the United States. However, not every dataset…
This post also appears on Extract-A-Fact Always on the lookout for interesting data, I was excited when I recently came across a comprehensive trove of data on offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).The datasets at data.boem.gov include: Oil production by lease, back to 1996 Owners for every active lease, dating to…
PWYP-US Extract-A-Fact Newsletter October 2016 Oil, Gas and Mining Transparency Advocates Join the Data Revolution 2016 is an historic year for transparency advocates and data geeks alike. After fourteen years of campaigning by the global Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition, laws requiring oil, gas and mining companies to publicly disclose project-level payments to governments for access to natural resources…
This post originally appeared on the 2016 International Open Data Conference blog on October 5, 2016. This post also appears on Extract-A-Fact 2016 is an historic year for transparency advocates and data geeks alike. After fourteen years of campaigning by the global Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition, laws requiring oil, gas and mining companies to publicly disclose project-level payments…