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EDGI’s Environmental Historians Action Collaborative working group annotated select chapters and sections of Project 2025 related to the environment, providing important context and fact-checking for the public: ...

Photo by Eric E. Johnson By Gretchen Gehrke, Chris Sellers, and EDGI Environmental governance is at a pivotal moment. With the shifting legal landscape over ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) held a Surplus Plutonium Disposition Public Comment Meeting on September 4, 2012 at the North Augusta, SC Municipal Building ...

EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) team hosted ‘Building Civic Technologies for Environmental Data Justice,’ a five-part workshop series that explored the tools they’re building for ...

Today EDGI launched our Public Comments Initiative, a project that aims to help people and organizations understand and more effectively engage in the public commenting ...

EDGI submitted a public comment in response to the White House Office of Management and Budget’s Request for Information, “Methods and Leading Practices for Advancing ...

Join the EDGI team! We’re looking to hire a a summer research intern to help coordinate a public online research project. This role will be ...

The EPA released draft Guidelines for Cumulative Risk Assessment Planning and Problem Formulation last year. This is a crucial step for the agency to meaningfully ...

Late last fall, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) sought to gather information and feedback for developing a coordinated Federal strategy to identify ...

Join us! We are looking to hire a new, collaborative team member to join EDGI to help with communications—network-wide and with the broader public ...

A paradigmatic case of the “sacrifice zone,” West Port Arthur and similar neighborhoods in Beaumont also epitomize the cumulative impacts faced by America’s most environmentally ...

Forty years have passed, and the people of Sivuqaq are still fighting for a more thorough clean-up of military wastes remaining on Sivuqaq as they ...

On September 30, 2023 FOIAonline—the government-wide online portal for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and case management—will be decommissioned. For more than a decade, ...

Is it as safe to drink tap water in Paterson as it is in more affluent, whiter communities nearby, such as Wayne? EDGI’s new tool, ...

The Biden administration’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) recently requested public comment on a set of learnings and potential recommendations for broadening public ...

The report EPA Enforcement Still Struggling to Recover Under Biden examines the slow to minimal progress the Biden Administration has made restoring the capacity of the EPA ...

I grew up in unincorporated Snohomish County, Washington—an area I often characterized, at the time, as the kind of place where people have guns and ...

We are very grateful to present this annual report for fiscal year 2022. In the midst of the intensifying climate emergency and growing evidence about ...

This October marks the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA). With the original goal of eliminating point-source pollution within ten years, the ...

In July of this year, EDGI’s Website Governance Project participated in the Earth Science Information Partners’ (ESIP) summer meeting in Pittsburgh. ESIP is a collaboration ...

This Wednesday Gretchen Gehrke, cofounder of EDGI and leader of EDGI’s Website Governance Project (WGP), will speak at the Internet Archive’s event ‘Building Democracy’s Library,’ ...

This month at the Science Writers 2022 Conference, EDGI members Kelsey Breseman and Eric Nost will host the virtual workshop ‘What’s in the Water? Stories ...

Webmaps that are meant to evaluate and “screen” neighborhoods for environmental injustices have seen a lot of interest in both the United States and Canada ...

nationwide strategy to research and redress the disproportionate harms that Indigneous, racialized, and other socio-economically marginalized communities face from industrial pollution ...

Last month EDGI received a Science and Technology Studies (STS) program grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate how the environmental justice (EJ) movement ...

Defining healthcare as a responsibility of good government could transform our ability to expect better environmental governance.Though corporations are technically subject to environmental laws, as ...

In April, EDGI received a grant from Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) to participate in the recent UNBOUND (Understanding Needs to Broaden Outside Use of ...

Tuesday July 19, 2022, after recently announcing the planned sunsetting of portions of its online archive, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency updated their Web Archive ...

EDGI, Toxic Docs, and Sierra Club are collecting thousands of internal government documents on the environment obtained by public interest groups through the Freedom of ...

On July 27th at 1PM EST, Merlin Chowkwanyun of Toxic Docs, Chris Sellers of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, and Elena Saxonhouse of the ...

Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled to limit the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out and enforce the Clean Air Act. In West ...

Photo courtesy of Unsplash. By Kelsey Breseman EDGI’s work on environmental data justice (EDJ) examines the intersectional areas of environmental justice and data justice: what ...

By EHAC Steering Committee On June 16 and 17, 33 scholars will come together in “The Climate Crisis: Early Americanists Respond,” a workshop organized by ...

The EPA plans to retire its online archive in July 2022. Open Letter to EPA Asks Agency Not to Sunset its Online Archive June 13, ...

Image from Unsplash. By Kelsey Breseman The Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe is bringing a case against the City of Seattle over their treaty rights, specifically for ...

The 2021 – 2023 cohort of Civic Science Fellows. EDGI’s fellows are hosted by the Rita Allen Foundation and funded in partnership with the David ...

Image shows the beta version of the federal Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. EDGI Urges CEQ to Incorporate Federal Enforcement Data into Climate and ...

The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative’s analysis of the most recent EPA data (2020) shows the top ten companies in terms of direct emissions of ...

In this post, we introduce EEW’s new open-source Jupyter Notebook for analyzing greenhouse gasses (GHGs) by the entities that either supply or emit them. This ...

Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced through their Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance that they are launching “ECHO Notify.” According to the agency ...

EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch’s catalog of open federal environmental datasets. View the page here. By Kelsey Breseman, Megan Raisle, Eric Nost, Sara Wylie We are ...

EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch’s new landing page for their open source environmental data science tools. View the page here. By Kelsey Breseman, Eric Nost, Andre ...

EDGI’s Environmental Historians Action Collaborative (EHAC) is co-organizing a conference on the climate crisis to take place June 16-17, 2022. With the McNeil Center for ...

January 20, 2022 – Today, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI)’s Website Monitoring Team releases Work in Progress: Governance of Digital Environmental Information In ...

Today, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI)’s Website Monitoring Team releases Crossing the Line: Analyzing EPA news releases under Trump and ensuring trust in ...

EDGI is thrilled to announce that we’re a host organization for two civic science fellows from 2021-2023. These fellowships are funded in partnership with the ...

By Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Despite garnering strong support from many groups in civil society, Juliana v. US has not been successful so far. Even though ...

On Friday, November 12, 2021, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative’s (EDGI's) Website Monitoring Team submitted a public comment to the Environmental Protection Agency on ...

By David Wiczer (Economics, Stony Brook University) and Christopher Sellers (History, Stony Brook University) The carbon tax, long hailed as among the most promising means for ...

EDGI is five years old! To celebrate, we hosted a virtual celebration on Wednesday, November 3, to reflect on our progress and growth: from an ...

On Wednesday, November 3, 2021, from 8-9PM Eastern / 5-6PM Pacific, EDGI will hold a birthday celebration of our fifth year as an organization! Join ...

On Wednesday, October 27 at 1PM Eastern/4PM Pacific, the Environmental Data Governance Initiative’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) will hold an event as part of Hacktoberfest, ...

On August 12, 2021, the EPA published extensive additions of at least 38 webpages to its “Climate Change” website, www.epa.gov/climate-change. These additions include webpages regarding ...

Job Posting: Development Lead – Part-time Anticipated start date: November 15, 2021 Compensation: $37.86 per hour; half-time employment with retirement contributions and paid vacation, holiday, ...

By Eric Nost, Megan Raisle, Steve Hansen, Kelsey Breseman, Lourdes Vera, Sara Wylie, and EDGI In Brief We developed a data science tool for educators, ...

Job Posting: Systems Administrator — Part-time   Expected hours: 8-10 hours per weekCompensation: $37.86 per hour   Anticipated start date: October 1, 2021 Location: Fully remote Position ...

By Leslie Alanis Using funding from Code for Science & Society (CS&S), EDGI has developed and implemented standards for  event accessibility. Specifically, our Environmental Enforcement ...

Image shows the call for information posted on EPA’s website. EDGI Urges White House Scientific Integrity Task Force to Improve Public Information Policies  In response ...

Timeline of enforcement at the EPA from A People’s EPA’s new history of EPA enforcement.  By Leif Fredrickson A New Chapter for Enforcement at the ...

Job Posting: Organizational Coordinator — Part-time   Expected hours: 15 hours per week (with potential to grow) Compensation: $29,533.5 per year, which is .375 FTE of ...

By Kelsey Breseman Vital data about federal environmental enforcement actions against facilities that pollute the soil, air, and water is currently available but largely inaccessible ...

El mes pasado, el 13 de mayo, el Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) de EDGI organizó un evento en línea acerca de los obstáculos que enfrentan ...

On May 13, EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) hosted an online event about the obstacles Latinx Communities face with accessibility to environmental information ...

We’ve seen how political interference has impacted science over the last few years and throughout the pandemic. Today, EDGI is excited to announce that we're ...

EDGI is honored to announce that the David & Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded us a generous grant to sustain and expand our work over ...

UX Designer EDGI is hiring a short-term user experience designer to help us imagine and create a map-based interactive website for members of the public ...

Web Developer EDGI is hiring a short-term web developer to assist in the maintenance and improvement of the website for our Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) ...

On Thursday, April 29th, EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch project (EEW) hosted our first open hour of the year to provide a networking space and structured ...

Chelsea River, aka Chelsea Creek, is the site of seven oil storage facilities whose permits, issued by EPA Region 1 under National Pollutant Discharge Elimination ...

We propose a set of policies that support these aims through better data practice: a Green New Deal for environmental data ...

By Kelsey Breseman EDGI is proud to announce an all-new Code of Conduct (see below), which places fresh emphasis on the values we embrace (rather ...

On Wednesday, April 14, from 2:30 - 4PM Eastern, come join us for the webinar, "From Besieged to Bolstered? The Biden Environmental Transition." ...

Just one week into Biden's presidency, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced its intent to review the effectiveness of scientific ...

EDGI’s data program examines the role of environmental data and its governance through the lenses of power, justice, and equity: Which communities are invited to ...

The BLM has removed the phrase “all of the above energy approach.” The image on the left shows BLM’s “Energy and Minerals” webpage on January ...

Between January 20 and February 28, 2021, the Department of the Interior (DOI) overhauled its stated priorities. The DOI’s priorities, as listed on its “Our ...

The “EPA Actions to Address PFAS” webpage was changed to reflect EPA career scientists’ conclusions about the latest toxicity assessment for PFBS guidelines and their ...

A new paper by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) summarizes how the Trump administration took unprecedented steps to censor climate change-related information—including by ...

Today, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) releases Access Denied: Federal Web Governance Under the Trump Administration. The report examines the Trump administration’s management ...

By Kelsey Breseman EDGI began back in 2016, when a massive data-saving movement launched in response to the realization that critical scientific data would be ...

Beginning January 25th, 2021, EPA’s top webpage epa.gov includes a clickable black and yellow image to report environmental violations ...

Between January 4, 2021 (left) and January 19, 2021 (right), EPA’s Homeland Security Research webpage began redirecting to a new webpage, Emergency Response Research. Welcome! ...

February 10, 2021 — Today, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) publishes searchable records of approximately 1,500 changes to federal agency environmental webpages under ...

By Alejandro Paz and Gretchen Gehrke Website monitoring is critical for raising public awareness about federal management of public information. In 2017, EDGI’s website monitoring ...

Michael Regan was nominated to be US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator by then-President-elect Biden in December 2020 and will face Senate confirmation in the ...

Panel speakers at EEW’s public event “Democratizing Environmental Data” in October 2020 The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is excited to announce receipt of ...

This week’s change occurred between May and July 2018 and is about a sentence that was added to an EPA webpage about drinking water health ...

The U.S. Global Change Research Program “USGCRP’s Role” webpage (shown on the left) became a restricted access page after March 5, 2018 (shown on the ...

When President elect Joe Biden and Vice-President elect Kamala Harris take office on January 20, 2021, they will need to respond quickly to the compounding ...

Environmental Enforcement Watch’s new report card on EPA enforcement in Cedric Richmond’s district between 2001 and 2019 adds to the public understanding and discussion around ...

Today the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) launches a collaborative digital project, A People’s EPA (APE). Since December 1970, Congress has charged the Environmental ...

Job Posting: Development Director — Part-time Dates: February 1, 2021 – August 31, 2021 Compensation: $48 per hour Expected hours: 20 hours per week Location: ...

The “Climate and Energy Resources for State, Local, and Tribal Governments” website (left) was replaced with the “Energy Resources for State, Local, and Tribal Governments” ...

This week’s change of the week was made in April 2017 and features the redirecting of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan website to a single ...

Seventy-six congressional report cards released by Environmental Data & Governance Initiative’s Environmental Enforcement Watch on October 22, 2020, show a decline in compliance and enforcement ...

Blog written by Alejandro Paz Lead image shows the HTML source code comparison for two versions of the same page, on which “greenhouse gas emissions ...

Welcome! This post is part of the EDGI Website Monitoring Team’s “Change of the Week” blog series. The purpose of this series is to highlight ...

Welcome! This post is part of the EDGI Website Monitoring Team’s “Change of the Week” blog series. The purpose of this series is to highlight ...

This week’s change was made in spring 2020 and features the removal of all past years’ budget documents on DOI’s “Budget Justifications” webpage. For more ...

This post is part of the EDGI Website Monitoring Team’s “Change of the Week” blog series. This week’s change was made in late August 2020 ...

The blaze at Bio-Lab following Hurricane Laura was not the first release of toxic chlorine from the facility, EDGI’s research into available federal data finds ...

This week's change was made in June 2017 and features the removal of the only sentences about climate change on the U.S. Forest Service's Wildland ...

Last Thursday 20+ organizers, students, activists and academics gathered for the second of four online workshops to practice our right to know about environmental hazards ...

This week’s change was made in 2017 and features the subtle removal of the lead-in sentence about methane from the EPA’s Overview of Greenhouse Gases ...

This week’s change is from earlier this summer and features a link removal from the EPA’s Air Research homepage. What happened? The main change of ...

The Communications Coordinator will develop and implement the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative’s (EDGI’s) communications strategy, with a specific focus to ensure that EDGI’s work ...

This week’s change is from earlier this summer and features a removal from the Coronavirus.gov “How It Spreads” FAQ webpage. What happened? The question and ...

On March 26, 2020, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a policy memo suspending pollution monitoring requirements for industries that claim to have been ...

Image: Hurricane Matthew, 2018. Courtesy of WXshift. Comment compiled by Gretchen Gehrke and the EDGI Website Monitoring Team Introduction The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative ...

There has been a significant reduction in the financial transparency of the Department of the Interior (DOI). Between April and May 2020, DOI removed the ...

In this annotation, the Environmental History Action Collaborative — a group of environmental historians and scholars – furnishes context and provides fact checking to allow ...

Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) is EDGI's latest project. A collaborative effort across several of our working groups, EEW is a series of online workshops aimed ...

Over the last year, the Department of Interior (DOI) has adopted a new priority: through the creation of a new webpage and a series of ...

Over the last three years, the Department of the Interior (DOI), which manages more than 20% of the nation’s land, has been altering its public ...

Though no field of work is un-disrupted by the global pandemic, EDGI has largely been a site of stability for its members — volunteers, paid ...

The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) has submitted a public comment on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPRM) regarding ...

Over the past three and a half years, the Trump administration has engaged in a historically unprecedented campaign to shrink our government’s capacity for reliable, ...

EDGI is hiring summer research interns to assist in coordinating a public online research project investigating patterns in violations of federal environmental regulations and enforcement ...

The Policy Monitoring/Interviewing Working Group of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative is seeking to fill a part-time Interview Curator position as well as part-time ...

Contributors: Kelsey Breseman, Eric Nost, Gretchen Gehrke, Chris Sellers, Marcy Beck, Lourdes Vera, EDGI On March 26, 2020 EPA released a memo suspending permit enforcement ...

By Kelsey Breseman, Stephanie Knutson, EDGI One of this year’s initiatives for EDGI’s working group on organizational structure is to more publicly share some of ...

Photo: Jeffrey Hamilton By Marcy Beck, Gretchen Gehrke, and Aaron Lemelin EDGI welcomed the opportunity to comment on​ the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) ...

Computer generated COVID-19 Coronavirus particle By Christopher Sellers, Leif Fredrickson, Alissa Cordner, Kelsey Breseman, Eric Nost, Kelly Wilkins, and EDGI Executive Summary The administration of ...

In January 2020, the Trump administration proposed dramatic regulatory changes that, if instituted, will undermine one of the nation’s most effective environmental laws, the National ...

By: Kelsey Breseman, EDGI The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) formed as an emergency effort to ensure public climate data stayed available in 2016, ...

Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) Response to the Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting ...

By Chris Sellers, Kelsey Breseman, Leif Fredrickson, EDGI Abstract: Throughout the history of U.S. environmental legislation, science has rightly served as our main touchstone for ...

By Kelsey Breseman, EDGI EDGI initially formed as a reaction to a presidential election, but has matured to fill an ongoing need for public accountability ...

By Kelsey Breseman EDGI is proud to announce that we are now officially a partner of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). The partnership was ...

INSTRUCTIONS: To see the annotations, click on the text that is highlighted in yellow below; the relevant annotations will then appear on the right side ...

By Kelsey Breseman Heather: What is it we go into decentralization wanting, and what is it capable of doing? Kelsey: When we talk about decentralization ...

By Kelsey Breseman, EDGI As of December 2019, ToxMap and ToxNet are being retired from the National Library of Medicines website maintained by the National ...

On December 16, the National Library of Medicine is retiring the revelatory environmental mapping tool known as ToxMap.  Ever so quietly, the door will close ...

By: Gretchen Gehrke, Marcy Beck, Alejandro Paz, Sara Wylie, Kelly Wilkins, and Kelsey Breseman EDGI’s Website Monitoring team has just published the first of a ...

By Kelly Wilkins and Kelsey Breseman This month EDGI hosted an environmental justice youth summit in partnership with the Environmental Chelsea Organizers, or ECO, a ...

The rationales offered by the Trump Administration for withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement echo a widely publicized speech by Trump in July 2019 that ...

By EDGI’s Website Monitoring Team There have been substantial changes to the EPA website during the Trump administration that negatively impact the quality of information ...

Authors: EDJ Working Group What is Environmental Data Justice (EDJ)? How are people and projects creating more just futures working with and against environmental data? ...

Authors: Eric Nost, Gretchen Gehrke, Aaron Lemelin, Marcy Beck, Steven Braun, Garance Malivel, and EDGI In EDGI’s latest report, “The New Digital Landscape,” we build ...

By Leif Fredrickson Last year EDGI started looking into the Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement policies, practices and metrics, after our confidential interviewing project with agency ...

A summary by Garance Malivel & the EDJ Working Group On February 28th, 2019, the Environmental Data Justice (EDJ) Working Group hosted its first online ...

EDGI has just released its 2019 Annual Report. We’ve grown and matured as an organization, and have been busy over the past year, continuing to ...

Written by Steven Braun As an information designer and visualizer of data, I am often tasked with an important challenge: developing a visual language to ...

Image by skeeze from Pixabay Public Comment by Gretchen Gehrke and Rebecca Lave Open PDF EDGI WOTUS Rule Public CommentDownload ...

Authors: Jesse DiValli, Sara Wylie, Gretchen Gehrke The Department of Interior’s (DOI) biography page for David Bernhardt, the nominee for Secretary of the Interior, omits ...

Image credit: Bob Wick Report: Reduction in Access to Sage Grouse Conservation Information and Resource on BLM Websites The sage grouse, an iconic bird of ...

By Gretchen Gehrke  EDGI Report: DOI Further Restricts Access to Climate Change Web Pages The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) manages approximately one-fifth of ...

Image: A capture of FWS.gov’s 404 error page. Users will no longer be able to access the site’s “Incidental Take” page. Blog by Aaron Lemelin, ...

C_Seller_EDGI_Testimony_&_Appendix_2_26_19_E&CDownload On Tuesday February 26th Professor Chris Sellers from Stony Brook University testified on behalf of EDGI for the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on ...

2018 was one of the weakest, perhaps the weakest, enforcement year for the EPA in decades ...

Contrary to the EPA's recently released "Year in Review," we are not on a path to a safer, cleaner future ...

Which environmental and data justice projects inspire you? In these fraught times, new modes of activism, research, and partnership are called for to enable justice, ...

The scientific data on which so much of what we know is based—the data we need to make informed decisions about many of the most ...

After nearly 18 months with the EPA’s climate change website “being updated” behind closed doors, two weeks ago, the agency apparently decided to change course ...

AAR 9 - EPA Climate Change Update Page - 181031 ...

We are searching for a remote part-time System Administrator to work on and support our Web Monitoring Platform, Scanner, used by our Web Monitoring Working ...

Seating is limited, please RSVP soon! On Saturday, November 3, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative members Jake Wylie and Kevin Nguyen will be speaking at an ...

For this guest post, EDGI has invited Dr. Mary E. Mendoza’s commentary on the border wall and justice for humans and non-humans alike. Mendoza calls ...

Public access to the data and models undergirding environmental regulation sounds appealing. But there are several reasons to think that the EPA’s call for “transparency” ...

EDGI is excited to announce that the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) has awarded us a generous grant to sustain and expand our work. Over ...

The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is monitoring changes to information and data on federal websites to hold our government accountable. Interested? Contact Jake ...

The Environmental Protection Agency made news recently for excluding reporters from a “summit” meeting on chemical contamination in drinking water. Episodes like this are symptoms of a ...

As a student, did you ever ask yourself, What is the point of all this? When education feels disconnected from practical implications, it can be ...

EDGI welcomed the opportunity to comment on​ the EPA’s Proposed Rule to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP) in April, 2018. Our comment document, Continued ...

The Trump administration, including Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt, has undertaken an assault on environmental health protections. This assault includes deregulation, defunding, staff ...

Dear Readers, We write with the remarkable news that we have just received our first sustaining grant from the Packard Foundation for $500,000 to support ...

Our partners at the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine invited EDGI over for lunch… The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, ...

Our collaboration with PageFreezer began on the eve of President Trump’s inauguration. Michael Riedijk heard about EDGI’s website archiving and monitoring efforts and reached out ...

In this guest post, Stephanie Rosen, the Accessibility Specialist for the University of Michigan Library, shares her thoughts on the recent removal of 92 documents ...

Report released: Changing the Digital Climate On January 10, 2018 the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) will release Changing the Digital Climate: How Climate ...

By members of EDGI’s Website Monitoring Team: Toly Rinberg, Gretchen Gehrke, Andrew Bergman, and Justin Schell Updated 12:00 pm ET December 22, 2017, following a ...

On Thursday and Friday next week, Data Together is hosting a two-day sprint to come together and improve project documentation, update our website content, and ...

By members of EDGI’s Website Monitoring Team: Toly Rinberg, Andrew Bergman, and Eric Nost In the first example of returned content since the Environmental Protection ...

By Toly Rinberg and Andrew Bergman, members of EDGI’s Website Monitoring Committee Originally posted on the UCS Equation On Monday, Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the ...

By Toly Rinberg and Andrew Bergman, members of EDGI’s Website Monitoring Committee (Cross-posted on Sunlight Foundation) As has been true for decades, the ways public ...

The first six months of the Trump Administration have reversed decades of progress toward environmental justice. The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) continues its ...

EDGI is grateful to have participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the first time in 2017. Our mentoring team of six volunteer EDGI ...

On August 28 at Northeastern University in Boston, EDGI convened an interdisciplinary group of Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars, civic tech practitioners, and community ...

Written by Harsh Baid. Reblogged with permission from Harsh Baid’s Blog: http://harshbaid.com/blog/2017/working-with-edgi/ Introduction Over the past 3 months, as part of Google Summer of Code ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A broad coalition of environmental, public health and public interest groups, including prominent African American and Latino organizations, issued the following joint ...

Written by Janak Raj Chadha. Identifying and Prioritizing Important Website Changes Introduction The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is an international network of academics ...

By Members of EDGI’s Website Monitoring Committee: Andrew Bergman (@andmbergman), Toly Rinberg, and Gretchen Gehrke  (For inquiries, please contact edgi.websitemonitoring@protonmail.com) August 3, 2017 – Between the ...

Three members of EDGI attended Web Archiving Week, #waweek2017, held in London from June 12 – 16, 2017. Located at the Senate House, University of ...

We are excited to announce that we will be working with DataKind and DataCorps volunteers in the coming months on “Filtering and Classification to Automate ...

EDGI is delighted to announce that we are the 2017 recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award given by the Society of American ...

By EDGI’s Website Monitoring Committee: Toly Rinberg, Andrew Bergman, Maya Anjur-Dietrich, and Gretchen Gehrke (For inquiries, please contact edgi.websitemonitoring@protonmail.com) July 12, 2017 — On July 11, E&E ...

by Lindsey Dillon, EDGI Member, Op-Ed reblogged from The Conversation. Abandoned industrial buildings at San Francisco’s Pier 70, with a smokestack in the background. Lindsey ...

EDGI has been working diligently to plan for the future based on overwhelming and ongoing interest in data archiving and engagement with government data! Thanks ...

By EDGI’s Website Monitoring Committee: Gretchen Gehrke, Maya Anjur-Dietrich, Andrew Bergman, and Toly Rinberg (For inquiries, please contact edgi.websitemonitoring@protonmail.com) June 30, 2017 — On Tuesday, June ...

The EDGI tech team had a great time at the Mozilla Global Sprint from June 1-2, 2017! We identified some low-hanging fruit on our Web ...

EDGI just published a new report covering our activities since mid-November until the beginning of May! Some highlights: We’ve dramatically improved the Internet Archive’s “End-of-Term” ...

By Sarah Lamdan, Director of Legal Research, and members of the Website Tracking Committee: Andrew Bergman, Maya Anjur-Dietrich, Gretchen Gehrke, and Toly Rinberg (For inquiries, ...

Statement by EDGI’s Website Tracking Committee April 28, 2017 11:00 PM ET—This evening, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an overhaul of its ...

EDGI is excited to sign on as an official partner of the #MarchforScience! We support the march’s mission, goals, and diversity principles, and we’re committed ...

EDGI’s recently published analysis and research shows that the passage of H.R. 1430, or HONEST Act, would block the EPA from using the data it ...

Below you will find an annotated guide to Scott Pruitt’s first address to the EPA on behalf of the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative. With ...

by The Southern California Climate Data Protection Project Countless historic settings have demanded archiving as a politically urgent tactic. In Nazi Germany individuals risked their ...

by Andrea Muehlebach Re-blogged from PPEHLAB Let me start with the basic fact of how important it is, perhaps now more than ever, to assemble ...

by Jessica Caporusso (York University) As numerous reports have increasingly made clear, environmental data is at risk. Under the threat of a science-adverse Trump administration, researchers ...

We are almost at 40 members! In just a couple weeks we have grown tremendously and received a wellspring of support. Our team now spans ...

Yesterday Michelle Murphy, who is leading our Toronto event, fielded interviews from CNN, BBC, CBC, time, NPR, vice. It is too many to keep track ...