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Communities Close to EPA-Regulated Data Centers Face Heightened Air Pollution
October 28, 2025

Communities Close to EPA-Regulated Data Centers Face Heightened Air Pollution

October 28, 2025 By Lelia Marie Hampton and Eric Nost Key Points Communities living in close proximity (i.e., one mile) …
Explore Our Alternative Tools for Contextualizing Hard-to-Access EPA Data
August 2, 2024

Explore Our Alternative Tools for Contextualizing Hard-to-Access EPA Data

EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) team hosted ‘Building Civic Technologies for Environmental Data Justice,’ a five-part workshop series that explored …
EDGI Releases Web Tool for Investigating Drinking Water Justice in New Jersey
September 26, 2023

EDGI Releases Web Tool for Investigating Drinking Water Justice in New Jersey

Is it as safe to drink tap water in Paterson as it is in more affluent, whiter communities nearby, such …
EDGI and the Right to Trust our Environmental Health
February 16, 2023

EDGI and the Right to Trust our Environmental Health

I grew up in unincorporated Snohomish County, Washington—an area I often characterized, at the time, as the kind of place …
EDGI Releases Report: 50 Years After the Clean Water Act, Toxic Chemicals it Regulates are Still Used in Fracking
October 31, 2022

EDGI Releases Report: 50 Years After the Clean Water Act, Toxic Chemicals it Regulates are Still Used in Fracking

This October marks the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA). With the original goal of eliminating point-source …
EDGI Members Host Upcoming NASW Workshop: What’s in the Water?
October 11, 2022

EDGI Members Host Upcoming NASW Workshop: What’s in the Water?

This month at the Science Writers 2022 Conference, EDGI members Kelsey Breseman and Eric Nost will host the virtual workshop …