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EDGI’s Public Comment on Proposed Definition of Waters of the United States
October 7, 2026
On September 9, 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPRM) seeking ...
EPA’s Website on Climate Change Research Goes Dark
October 6, 2026
EPA’s homepage for Climate Change Research on September 8, 2026 (left), and September 10, 2026 (right), after it was taken down. Text highlighted in red ...
EPA and Army Corps Seek Additional Comments on Proposed Water Rule That Goes Against Established Science
September 15, 2026
On September 9, 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPRM) seeking ...
Trump Administration Moves to Amend National Climate Study
September 3, 2026
The day before Nepal and Tibet suffered catastrophic flooding due to glacial collapse, the Trump administration issued a proposal that would weaken the role of ...
Public Comments Initiative Launches Workshop Series
August 5, 2026
EDGI is expanding its Public Comments Initiative! Launched in 2024 to encourage effective engagement with federal rulemaking, the initiative now includes a workshop series and ...
Public Comment Workshop for NSF’s Proposal to Politicize Grantmaking
August 3, 2026
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has proposed policy changes that would politicize its grantmaking process and threaten the integrity of federally-backed research ...
Greenhouse Gas Reporting Data Identifies Top Polluters
July 21, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 21, 2026 CONTACT: Report authors are available to answer media questions. To arrange an interview, please direct media inquiries to shannanlenke.stoll@envirodatagov.org ...
Proposed OMB Rule Threatens Public Interest Science – Comment by July 13
July 2, 2026
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget, in conjunction with more than 40 federal agencies, has proposed dramatic changes to federal grant guidelines that would ...
Public Comment Workshop for EPA’s Proposal to Weaken Protections for PFAS
June 29, 2026
EPA is proposing to weaken drinking water protections related to so-called forever chemicals (PFAS or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Join the Environmental Data and Governance ...
Information About Historic Hurricanes Removed From EPA’s Website
June 4, 2026
In April 2026, EPA’s main page for Hurricane Helene was deleted, alongside all other EPA pages related to the September 2024 Category 4 storm that ...
Public Comment Workshop for EPA’s Proposal to Weaken Standards for Coal Ash Clean-Up
May 11, 2026
Workshop TitleShare Your Voice: Effective Public Comment Writing for EPA’s Proposal to Weaken Coal Ash Disposal Standards OverviewJoin the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) ...
Public Comment Workshop for EPA’s Proposal to Weaken Standards for Ethylene Oxide Emissions
April 15, 2026
Workshop Title Share Your Voice: Effective Public Comment Writing for EPA's Proposal to Weaken Standards for Ethylene Oxide Emissions OverviewJoin the Union of Concerned Scientists ...
Public Comment Workshop for EPA’s Proposal to Weaken Chemical Disaster Prevention
March 27, 2026
Workshop Title Share your voice: Effective Public Comment Writing for EPA's proposal to Weaken Chemical Disaster Prevention Requirements OverviewJoin the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) ...
EPA Removes Information About Harms of Ethylene Oxide the Day It Announces Proposal To Weaken Regulations
March 25, 2026
On March 13, the EPA removed several pages about the risks of ethylene oxide, a known carcinogen and highly potent hazardous air pollutant used to ...
Analysis Shows EPA’s Enforcement Claims Are Misleading
March 19, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2026 CONTACT: To arrange an interview or with questions about EDGI’s analysis, please direct media inquiries to shannanlenke.stoll@envirodatagov.org. Analysis Shows ...
EPA’s Enforcement Performance Under Trump Takes Historic Dive
January 29, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2, 2026 CONTACT: Report authors are available to answer media questions. To arrange an interview, please direct media inquiries to shannanlenke.stoll@envirodatagov.org ...
One Year into the Second Trump Administration, Defending the Environmental Right to Know is More Important Than Ever
January 20, 2026
January 20, 2026 — Today marks one year of the second Trump administration’s relentless attempt to dismantle federal environmental and public health protections. By attacking ...
Proposed Endangered Species Act Revisions: EDGI Information Packet
December 22, 2025
History of the Endangered Species Act In April 2025, the Trump Administration proposed to rescind the definition of “harm” as it applied to the Endangered ...
EPA Removes Information about Agency and Environmental History
December 19, 2025
A side-by-side view of the homepage for “EPA History” on May 28, 2025 (left), and November 24, 2025 (right), after links to several pages about ...
EPA Communications Under Zeldin Politicized, Report Shows
December 18, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 18, 2025 CONTACT: Report authors are available to answer media questions. To arrange an interview, please direct media inquiries to shannanlenke.stoll@envirodatagov.org ...
EPA Scrubs Information About Climate Change Indicators and Impacts
December 10, 2025
The Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis (CIRA) page on December 3, 2025 (left), and December 5, 2025 (right), after it was taken down. Highlights ...
NIEHS’s Only Journal – Environmental Health Perspectives – Is Suddenly Removed
December 8, 2025
The NIEHS Environmental Health Perspectives home page on November 5, 2025 (left), and December 1, 2025 (right), after it was taken down. Highlights From the ...
Changes to EPA’s COBRA Tool Have Major Implications for Climate Policy
November 20, 2025
This post is part of the EDGI Website Governance Team’s “Highlights from the Change Log” blog series. The purpose of this series is to highlight ...
Trump Excuses Some of the Nation’s Riskiest Emitters From Clean Air Act Rules
November 12, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2025 CONTACT: Report authors are available to answer media questions. To arrange an interview, please direct media inquiries to shannanlenke.stoll@envirodatagov.org ...
Threats to Drinking Water Call for Stronger Regulation and Enforcement
November 5, 2025
By: Jennifer Epstein, Eric Nost, Christopher Cane, and Shannan Lenke Stoll This is an installment of our State of Environmental Protection series, where we use ...
Federal Agencies Post Incendiary Banners About the Government Shutdown
October 29, 2025
This post is part of the EDGI Website Governance Team’s “Highlights from the Change Log” blog series. The purpose of this series is to highlight ...
Communities Close to EPA-Regulated Data Centers Face Heightened Air Pollution
October 28, 2025
October 28, 2025 By Lelia Marie Hampton and Eric Nost Key Points Communities living in close proximity (i.e., one mile) to EPA-regulated data centers have ...
Surface Waters Under Threat
October 21, 2025
This is an installment of our State of Environmental Protection series. This series utilizes public data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate ...
Trump Administration Intensifies Suppression of Climate Information
October 14, 2025
In July and August 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies altered and removed several webpages related to climate change. Pages spanned ...
Who Knows What’s in Our Air? A Case Study in Louisiana
October 2, 2025
Air quality monitors measure pollutants like particulate matter, ozone, and nitrogen oxides in the air we breathe—pollutants closely linked to public health. In the past, ...
EPA Undermines Public Process and Ignores Evidence in Reconsideration of Endangerment Finding
September 25, 2025
EPA Undermines Public Process and Ignores Evidence in Reconsideration of Endangerment Finding On September 22, 2025, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative’s (EDGI’s) Website Governance ...
Community-Led FOIA: Introduction to the Project and the State-by-State Guide
August 1, 2025
EDGI is developing tools to facilitate communities’ use of the FOIA process. Our first tool is a series of state-by-state community-led FOIA guides ...
A New Wave of Air Toxics Demands Real Enforcement
July 17, 2025
This is the first installment of our State of Environmental Protection series. This series utilizes public data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ...
State of Environmental Protection: Introduction to the Series
June 20, 2025
EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch project is covering the state of environmental protection in the US today through a series of blog posts. The goal of ...
EPA Removes Information About its HBCU and Minority Serving Institutions Advisory Council
June 5, 2025
In April 2025, the EPA removed information about its Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions (HBCU-MSI) Advisory Council. The EPA deleted the ...
NOAA removes “Teaching Climate” resources from Climate.gov
May 16, 2025
Snapshots of the Climate.gov website footer with a complete “Teaching Climate” section from March 31, 2025 (left) and with four links removed from April 6, ...
How Information Was Suppressed in Trump’s First 100 Days (and How It Compares to Last Time)
April 29, 2025
EPA’s Environmental Justice website returns a 404 error, with text stating, “Sorry, but this web page does not exist.” In the first 100 days of ...
NOAA Upholds Its Authority to Provide Public Information
April 3, 2025
The Climate.gov “About” page with a new “Statutory Authority” section. Text highlighted in green was added between March 6 and 12, 2025. Highlights from the ...
NOAA Removes the 2024 Climate Literacy Guide from Its Website
March 24, 2025
Highlights from the Change Log: NOAA removes the 2024 Climate Literacy Guide from its website Welcome! This post is part of the EDGI Website Monitoring ...
PRESS RELEASE: EDGI Relaunches Federal Environmental Web Tracker
March 3, 2025
In response to the Trump administration’s rapid dismantling of federal websites, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) has relaunched its Federal Environmental Web Tracker ...
How to Find Climate Data and Science the Trump Administration Doesn’t Want You to See
February 19, 2025
Information on the internet might seem like it’s there forever, but it’s only as permanent as people choose to make it. That’s apparent as the ...
EPA Removes EJScreen from Its Website
February 12, 2025
On February 5th, EPA removed several web pages about the environmental justice mapping and screening tool, EJScreen, as well as the tool itself. These pages, ...
FEMA Renames “Climate Resilience” Website “Future Conditions”
February 7, 2025
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has renamed its “Climate Resilience” website to “Future Conditions,” and has removed much of the climate-specific language from the ...
Trump Removes Access to CEJST, Our New Coalition Restores It
January 31, 2025
Less than three days after CEJST was taken offline, EDGI and fellow members of Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) stood up an unofficial but functional ...
Trump Targets DEI Pages at the EPA
January 27, 2025
In the first couple of days of the second Trump administration, the EPA removed several web pages related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts ...
Why EDGI is Archiving Public Environmental Data
January 16, 2025
Governments worldwide collect and distribute data relevant to environmental challenges. For instance, the United States (US) federal government collects satellite imagery, climatological and weather records, ...
PRESS RELEASE: EDGI Works to Safeguard Federal Environmental Data and Information
January 13, 2025
In anticipation of a second and likely more significant assault on federal environmental information by the Trump administration, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) ...
3 Ways Trump’s EPA Could Use the Language of Science to Weaken Pollution Controls
January 10, 2025
President Donald J. Trump tours the Pratt Industries plant with Pratt Industries Executive Chairman Anthony Pratt Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Photo by ...
EDGI’s Environmental Historians Annotate Project 2025
October 22, 2024
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: ...
A New Legal Landscape for Environmental Regulations
October 14, 2024
Environmental governance is at a pivotal moment. With the shifting legal landscape over the last eight years, including the spate of Supreme Court (SCOTUS) rulings ...
SCOTUS Scrutiny and the Future of Public Commenting
September 17, 2024
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 ...
Explore Our Alternative Tools for Contextualizing Hard-to-Access EPA Data
August 2, 2024
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 ...
EDGI Launches Project to Shed Light On the Public Comment Process
July 23, 2024
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 ...
Advancing Public Participation and Community Engagement with the Federal Government
May 17, 2024
This comment stresses that the federal government should strive to increase the tangible impact of public participation in federal decision-making. To do this, EDGI recommends ...
EDGI is hiring: APE Summer Internship
May 17, 2024
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 ...
EDGI’s Public Comment on EPA’s Draft Guidelines for Cumulative Risk Assessment Planning and Problem Formulation
April 11, 2024
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 ...
EDGI’s Public Comment to the OSTP on the Development of a Federal Environmental Justice Science, Data, and Research Plan
March 8, 2024
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 ...
EDGI is hiring a Communications Lead
October 24, 2023
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 ...
Introducing EDGI’s New Collaborator in our “Cumulative Effects” Project: Community In-Power and Development Association, Inc. (CIDA)
October 24, 2023
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 ...
Introducing EDGI’s New Collaborator in our “Cumulative Effects” Project: Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT)
October 18, 2023
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 ...
EDGI Advocates for Public Access to Records as FOIAonline Is Shuttered
September 29, 2023
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, ...
EDGI Releases Web Tool for Investigating Drinking Water Justice in New Jersey
September 26, 2023
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, ...
EDGI’s Public Comment on Broadening Public Engagement in the Federal Regulatory Process
March 13, 2023
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 ...
EDGI Releases Report: EPA Enforcement Still Struggling to Recover Under Biden
February 22, 2023
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 ...
EDGI and the Right to Trust our Environmental Health
February 16, 2023
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 ...
EDGI Releases 2022 Annual Report
February 13, 2023
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 ...
EDGI Releases Report: 50 Years After the Clean Water Act, Toxic Chemicals it Regulates are Still Used in Fracking
October 31, 2022
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 ...
EDGI Presents on Enhancing Data Access, Use, and Understanding at ESIP Meeting
October 27, 2022
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 ...
EDGI To Speak at Internet Archive Event Wednesday
October 18, 2022
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,’ ...
EDGI Members Host Upcoming NASW Workshop: What’s in the Water?
October 11, 2022
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 ...
Taking an Environmental Data Justice Approach to Canada’s Environmental Racism Legislation
October 5, 2022
nationwide strategy to research and redress the disproportionate harms that Indigneous, racialized, and other socio-economically marginalized communities face from industrial pollution ...
EDGI Releases Report: How Data Gaps and Disparities in EPA Data Undermine Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tools
September 28, 2022
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 ...
EDGI Receives NSF Grant to Research How National EJ Movement Has Affected EPA’s Approach to Data and Science
September 9, 2022
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 ...
Opinion: Universal Healthcare as a Critical Component of Environmental Justice
August 15, 2022
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 ...
EDGI Receives Grant to Participate in UNBOUND Environmental Justice Workshop Series, Hosted by NASA and ESIP
August 3, 2022
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 ...
EDGI’s Response to the EPA’s Announcement it Will Retain its Online Archive
July 22, 2022
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 ...
Upcoming Workshop Reveals Documents Showing How the Trump Administration Worked to Hamper the EPA
July 6, 2022
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 ...
What Went on in the Trump EPA? Announcing a New FOIA Archive
July 5, 2022
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 ...
EDGI’s Response to the Supreme Court ruling on West Virginia v. EPA
June 30, 2022
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 ...
Exploring Web3’s Potential for Environmental Data Justice
June 29, 2022
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 ...
Researchers of Early America Consider How to Respond to the Climate Crisis at Upcoming Conference
June 14, 2022
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 ...
PRESS RELEASE: Open Letter to EPA Asks Agency Not to Sunset its Online Archive
June 13, 2022
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, ...
EDGI’s Civic Science Fellows Lay Groundwork
May 12, 2022
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 ...
Salmon (and Humans) Need the Clean Water Act
May 5, 2022
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 ...
PRESS RELEASE: EDGI Urges CEQ to Incorporate Federal Enforcement Data into Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
April 28, 2022
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 ...
PRESS RELEASE: EDGI Releases Report on Carbon Emissions by US Corporations
April 20, 2022
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 ...
Owning Up: A Tool to Measure US Carbon Emissions by Corporations
April 20, 2022
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 ...
EDGI’s Response to the EPA’s New “ECHO Notify” Tool for Enforcement and Compliance
March 24, 2022
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 ...
Catalog of Open Federal Datasets Available on EEW’s Site
March 24, 2022
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 ...
Environmental Enforcement Watch’s Interactive Data Research Tools Now Available on Website
March 16, 2022
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 ...
The Environmental Historians Action Collaborative Co-Organizes Conference on the Climate Crisis
February 17, 2022
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 ...
EDGI’s Website Monitoring Team Releases Report on Federal Web Governance in Biden’s First Year
January 20, 2022
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 ...
EDGI’s Website Monitoring Team Analyzes Extreme Politicization of EPA News Releases Under Trump
December 20, 2021
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 ...
Meet EDGI’s New Civic Science Fellows
November 24, 2021
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 ...
EDGI’s Public Comment on EPA’s Strategic Plan for 2022-2026
November 19, 2021
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 ...
Led by Environmental Historians Action Collaborative, EDGI signs on to Letter in Support of Juliana v. US Plaintiffs
November 15, 2021
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 ...
EDGI’s Fifth Birthday Celebration
November 9, 2021
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 ...
Join us to celebrate: EDGI at Five Years
November 1, 2021
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 ...
The Carbon Tax Meets the Suburbs: Projecting the Equity Impacts of New York’s Proposed Climate and Community Investment Act
October 29, 2021
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 ...
Code With EDGI! Environmental Enforcement Watch Does #Hacktoberfest2021
October 22, 2021
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, ...
EPA Changes Up Its Climate Change Website
October 5, 2021
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 ...
EDGI is Hiring! Development Lead – Half-time
September 28, 2021
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, ...
What’s in My Watershed? A Tool for Community Analysis of Water Pollution and Polluters
September 23, 2021
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, ...
Prioritizing Accessibility for Online Events
September 2, 2021
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 ...
EDGI Urges White House Scientific Integrity Task Force to Improve Public Information Policies
July 29, 2021
Stronger public information policies are necessary for stronger scientific integrity policies. This comment underscores that relationship by providing specific examples of federal website information management ...
A New Chapter for Enforcement at the EPA?
July 27, 2021
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 ...
Environmental Enforcement Watch’s Report Portal Project is Funded by ESIP Lab Grant
July 14, 2021
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 ...
¿Justicia Ambiental para Quién? La Inaccesibilidad de los Datos Ambientales para las Comunidades Latinas
June 21, 2021
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 ...
Environmental Justice for Whom? The Inaccessibility of Environmental Data for Latinx Communities
June 21, 2021
On May 13, EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) hosted an online event about the obstacles Latinx Communities face with accessibility to environmental information ...
EDGI Joins the Scientific Integrity Reporting Project
June 16, 2021
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 Receives Sustaining Grant from David & Lucile Packard Foundation
June 1, 2021
EDGI is honored to announce that the David & Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded us a generous grant to sustain and expand our work over ...
EDGI is hiring! Web Developer — Part-Time
June 1, 2021
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) ...
Environmental Enforcement Watch Hosts Public Open Hour to Discuss Challenges with Environmental Data
May 18, 2021
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 ...
EDGI’s Public Comment on EPA’s NPDES Renewal for Chelsea Creek
May 10, 2021
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 ...
A Green New Deal for Environmental Data
April 28, 2021
We propose a set of policies that support these aims through better data practice: a Green New Deal for environmental data ...
EDGI’s New Code of Conduct Emphasizes Restorative Justice
April 20, 2021
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 ...
Upcoming Webinar: From Besieged to Bolstered? The Biden Environmental Transition
April 8, 2021
On Wednesday, April 14, from 2:30 - 4PM Eastern, come join us for the webinar, "From Besieged to Bolstered? The Biden Environmental Transition." ...
How the Biden Administration Can Protect Public Environmental Information
March 29, 2021
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 Governance Through the Lenses of Power, Justice, and Equity
March 23, 2021
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 ...
Say Goodbye to the Obama Era “All of the Above” Energy Approach
March 22, 2021
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 ...
In Advance of Haaland Confirmation, DOI Overhauls Its Priorities
March 16, 2021
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 ...
EPA Indicates Bold Support for Scientific Integrity on Its Website
March 8, 2021
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 ...
Climate Silence and the Trump Administration’s Censorship of Federal Environmental Agency Websites
March 4, 2021
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 ...
New Report Shows Pattern Under Trump of Federal Agencies Removing Public Information Prior to Environmental Proceedings
February 25, 2021
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 ...
EDGI supports Internet Archive’s Decentralized Web Principles
February 19, 2021
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 ...
Since Biden’s Inauguration, Environmental Enforcement Has New Place of Prominence on the EPA’s Homepage
February 18, 2021
Beginning January 25th, 2021, EPA’s top webpage epa.gov includes a clickable black and yellow image to report environmental violations ...
Goodbye Homeland Security, Hello Emergency Response: EPA Renames a Major Research Initiative
February 15, 2021
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! ...
EDGI Releases Dataset of Federal Environmental Website Changes Under Trump
February 10, 2021
February 10, 2021 — Today, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) publishes searchable records of approximately 1,500 changes to federal agency environmental webpages under ...
How EDGI’s Website Monitoring Team Uses an Open Source Tool to Identify Website Changes—and How You Can, Too
February 3, 2021
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 ...
EPA Administrator Pick Michael Regan’s Enforcement Track Record is Promising
January 25, 2021
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 ...
EDGI Wins $20,000 to Co-Develop Environmental Data Infrastructures With Community Groups
January 25, 2021
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 ...
Why a Small Change to an EPA Webpage on Drinking Water Chemical Advisories Matters
January 11, 2021
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 ...
Undermining the Importance of the U.S. Global Change Research Program Efforts to Address Climate Change
December 21, 2020
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 ...
Building Just, Equitable, and Effective Environmental Governance Under Biden
December 15, 2020
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 ...
Biden’s Pick for the Office of Public Engagement, Cedric Richmond, Profits While Polluting Industries in His District Avoid Culpability
December 11, 2020
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 ...
Fifty Years After the EPA’s Formation, EDGI Releases A People’s EPA
December 9, 2020
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 ...
EDGI is hiring! Development Director — Part-Time
December 8, 2020
Job Posting: Development Director — Part-time Dates: February 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021 Compensation: $48 per hour Expected hours: 20 hours per week Location: ...
Only One EPA Web Resource Has Been Restored — Entirely Scrubbed of Climate Change Content
December 1, 2020
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” ...
Change of the Week: Story of Clean Power Plan Website Removal Underscores Need for Better Information Policies
November 16, 2020
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 ...
Making a public dataset: reviewing and reclassifying changes to federal environmental webpages
October 28, 2020
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 ...
Democratizing Data Reports Released by EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch
October 23, 2020
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 ...
Change of the Week: It’s the two-year anniversary of EPA abandoning its Climate Change website “updates”
October 19, 2020
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 ...
Change of the Week: Stripping information and stripping protections for migratory birds
October 12, 2020
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 ...
Change of the Week: Budget Info Goes Missing at DOI
September 29, 2020
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 ...
Change of the Week: Coronavirus website downplays need for testing
September 21, 2020
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 ...
Bio-Lab’s Toxic Record Presages Chlorine-Fueled Fire Following Hurricane Laura
September 16, 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 ...
Change of the Week: Any idea why fighting wildfires is getting harder?
September 8, 2020
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 ...
Practicing Our Right to Know, Together — Review of EEW Congressional Report Card Workshops to Date
September 2, 2020
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 ...
Change of the Week: Chipping away at methane information
August 31, 2020
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 ...
Change of the Week: Access Changes to Air Research Tools
August 24, 2020
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 ...
Change of the Week: Let’s just not mention the rising number of COVID-19 cases…
August 17, 2020
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 ...
More Permission to Pollute: The Decline of EPA Enforcement and Industry Compliance during COVID
August 13, 2020
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 ...
EDGI’s Public Comment on the NCA5 Draft Prospectus: Build on the strong foundation of NCA 4 and increase information utility in the NCA5
August 10, 2020
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 ...
Financial Transparency is Dwindling at DOI
July 31, 2020
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 ...
Joe Biden’s Clean Energy Plan Speech — Annotated
July 29, 2020
In this annotation, the Environmental History Action Collaborative — a group of environmental historians and scholars – furnishes context and provides fact checking to allow ...
Meet the Interns: Environmental Enforcement Watch
July 24, 2020
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 ...
DOI Adds “Recreation” Priority and Webpage, Continues to Lack Meaningful Focus on Other Priorities
June 16, 2020
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 ...
Evolving Language on DOI Webpages Shifts Focus from Long-term Conservation to Economic Growth
June 15, 2020
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 ...
EDGI in the Time of COVID
June 12, 2020
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 ...
EDGI Urges EPA to Withdraw its Ill-Conceived ‘Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science’ Proposed Rule
May 13, 2020
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 ...
An Embattled Landscape, Part 2b: The Declining Capacity of Federal Environmental Science
May 7, 2020
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, ...
EPA’s COVID-19 Leniency is a Free Pass to Pollute
April 14, 2020
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 ...
Collaborative Authorship: EDGI’s Values-First Approach to Attribution
April 2, 2020
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 ...
EDGI’s Take on Proposed Revisions Undercutting the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
March 30, 2020
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) ...
An Embattled Landscape, Part 2a: Coronavirus and the Three-Year Trump Quest to Slash Science at the CDC
March 24, 2020
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 ...
EDGI/EHAC Critiques Trump Admin’s Efforts to Weaken the National Environmental Policy Act
March 14, 2020
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 ...
EDGI Coauthors Data Risk Categorization Paper with ESIP
March 11, 2020
By: Kelsey Breseman, EDGI The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) formed as an emergency effort to ensure public climate data stayed available in 2016, ...
EDGI Supports OSTP’s Effort to Improve Access to Federally Funded Research
March 9, 2020
EDGI’s comment supports this Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) effort to make data from federally funded research more available and accessible, with comments ...
An Embattled Landscape: Federal Environmental Science Integrity in the United States Today, A Three Part Series — Part 1: Targeting Scientific Influence on Policy
March 1, 2020
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 ...
Radical Org: Prototyping Alternative Organizational Structures
January 25, 2020
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 ...
EDGI is now an ESIP Partner
January 22, 2020
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 ...
Remarks by President Trump on Proposed National Environmental Policy Act Regulations — Annotated
January 15, 2020
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 ...
Articulating Values as Technologists: the Data Together Reading Group
January 14, 2020
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 ...
What EDGI Archived Before ToxMap and ToxNet Went Offline
December 18, 2019
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 ...
Goodbye to ToxMap–and Our Environmental Right-to-Know
December 11, 2019
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 ...
New Report: Web Governance Analysis of Unconventional Oil and Gas Extraction Effluent Guidelines
December 3, 2019
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 ...
EJxYouth Summit Speakers: We Aren’t Waiting for Adults — We’re Leading the Way
November 29, 2019
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 ...
Remarks by President Trump on America’s Environmental Leadership – Annotated
November 5, 2019
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 ...
Examples of Changes to the EPA Website that Undermine Public Access to Scientific Information
September 19, 2019
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 ...
Announcements! Rollout of Environmental Data Justice Syllabus and Upcoming EJxYouth Summit Online Event
September 5, 2019
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? ...
New Report Analyzes Changes to Climate Topics Across Thousands of US Federal Agency Websites
July 22, 2019
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 ...
Update of Sheep in the Closet Report — EPA Enforcement Record in the Trump Administration through Fiscal Year 2018
June 11, 2019
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 ...
‘Environmental Data Justice: Vision and Values’ Event
May 24, 2019
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 Releases 2019 Annual Report
May 17, 2019
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 ...
Using Visualization to Illuminate Shifting Climate Rhetorics
April 28, 2019
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 ...
EPA MUST PROVIDE MORE ACCESSIBLE AND INFORMATIVE RESOURCES FOR AUTHENTIC PUBLIC COMMENT
April 15, 2019
EDGI’s comment focuses on removals of and reductions in access to online resources directly relevant to the proposed redefinition of Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) ...
Worked for “entities accused of violating DOI regulations” and other omissions in the (Nominated) Secretary for the Interior, David Bernhardt’s, Official Bio.
March 28, 2019
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 ...
Sage Grouse Informational Resources on BLM Website Inadequate for Public Participation in Management Plan Amendments
March 15, 2019
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 ...
Climate Change Information Gone from DOI Website
March 14, 2019
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 ...
Fish and Wildlife Service removed online resources after controversial opinion on incidental take
March 8, 2019
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, ...
EDGI’s Congressional Testimony for Energy and Commerce Subcommittee Hearing: “EPA Enforcement: Taking the Environmental Cop off the Beat”
February 26, 2019
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 ...
EPA initiated fewer civil cases in 2018 than it has in over 35 years (and other red flags of weak enforcement)
February 14, 2019
2018 was one of the weakest, perhaps the weakest, enforcement year for the EPA in decades ...
Pollution and Hazardous Waste Reduction Is the Lowest on Record Under Trump’s EPA
February 1, 2019
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?
January 10, 2019
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, ...
Recap from Data Together Annual Meeting
November 21, 2018
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 ...
EPA Discontinues Updates to Climate Change Websites
November 6, 2018
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 ...
We are Hiring a Part-Time System Administrator!
October 25, 2018
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 ...
Join us November 3 for Lessons on FOIA and Environmental Information Access in the Trump Era
October 11, 2018
Seating is limited, please RSVP soon! On Saturday, November 3, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative members Jake Wylie and Kevin Nguyen will be speaking at ...
Caging Nature, Caging Humans
September 18, 2018
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 ...
EPA’s Proposed Rule Uses the Idea of Transparency to Reduce Real Transparency and Delay Protecting Environmental and Public Health
September 10, 2018
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” ...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards Generous Grant to EDGI to Expand its Work
July 31, 2018
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 ...
Volunteer Position: Website Monitoring Analyst
July 2, 2018
The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is monitoring changes to information and data on federal websites to hold our government accountable. Interested? Contact Jake ...
EPA staff say the Trump administration is changing their mission from protecting human health and the environment to protecting industry
June 6, 2018
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 ...
Web Monitoring in the Classroom Builds Information Literacy, Civic Engagement
May 18, 2018
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 ...
Comment on the EPA’s Proposed Rule to Repeal the Clean Power Plan Focuses on Access to Online Resources
May 5, 2018
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 ...
Paving the Way for Trump: Past Presidential Assaults on Environmental Health Protection
May 1, 2018
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 ...
EDGI Receives Grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
April 11, 2018
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 ...
Touring the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
April 2, 2018
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, ...
EDGI and PageFreezer, teaming up to archive environmental websites
February 28, 2018
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 ...
Answering Questions About Accessibility Regulations and Access to Climate Action Plans
February 15, 2018
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 ...
New report on January 10: Climate Change Web Content Under Trump
December 31, 2017
Report released: Changing the Digital Climate On January 10, 2018 the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) will release Changing the Digital Climate: How Climate ...
Climate Action Plans for National Parks Removed from Site Without Advance Explanation
December 21, 2017
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 ...
Join us Oct 26-27 for a two-day Data Together Sprint ??
October 21, 2017
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 ...
EPA’s Website Overhaul Continues: Climate Resources Left Out of the Update to the “Climate and Energy Resources for State, Local, and Tribal Governments” Website
October 20, 2017
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 ...
Removing Clean Power Plan Web Resources Undermines Public Engagement
October 13, 2017
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 ...
Changes to USGS website highlight the importance of search for public access
September 22, 2017
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 ...
EDGI Highlights Environmental Justice Implications in Part 2 of the First 100 Days and Counting
September 18, 2017
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 ...
Wrapping up Google Summer of Code 2017
September 12, 2017
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 ...
Towards an Environmental Data Justice Statement: Initial Thoughts
September 6, 2017
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 ...
Google Summer of Code 2017: Harsh Baid – Data Visualizations
September 4, 2017
Written by Harsh Baid. Reblogged with permission from Harsh Baid's Blog: https://harshbaid.com/blog/2017/working-with-edgi/ Introduction Over the past 3 months, as part of Google Summer of Code ...
Environmental and Public Interest Groups Condemn Racist Violence and Intolerance in Charlottesville, Virginia
August 31, 2017
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 ...
Google Summer of Code 2017: Janak Raj Chadha – Web Monitoring Project
August 25, 2017
Written by Janak Raj Chadha. Identifying and Prioritizing Important Website Changes Introduction The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is an international network of academics ...
Removals and Access Reductions on the USDA’s “Climate Hubs” Website Prompt Concerns About Transparency and Public Access
August 3, 2017
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 ...
EDGI at Web Archiving Week!
July 28, 2017
Three members of EDGI attended Web Archiving Week, #waweek2017, held in London from June 12 - 16, 2017. Located at the Senate House, University of ...
Join EDGI with the DataKind DataCorps
July 25, 2017
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 awarded J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award by Society of American Archivists
July 17, 2017
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 ...
Missing EPA Endangerment Finding Web Resources Reignite Confusion: Continued Mismanagement Following the EPA Climate Change Website Overhaul
July 12, 2017
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 ...
Cleaning up toxic sites shouldn’t clear out the neighbors
July 10, 2017
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 ...
Next Phase of Archiving: Data Together
July 5, 2017
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 ...
Overhaul of the EPA’s Clean Water Rule Website Removes Information and Reduces Public Access to Resources
June 30, 2017
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 ...
Recap on Mozilla Global Sprint
June 5, 2017
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’s new “Accomplishments” report is published!
May 11, 2017
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” ...
Errors in the January 19 snapshot of EPA.gov are problematic from transparency, data preservation, and information access standpoints and may have legal implications
May 5, 2017
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, ...
The announced overhaul of EPA.gov has already begun and pages relating to climate change are currently inaccessible
April 29, 2017
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 ...
Launch of EDGI HONEST Act White Paper
March 27, 2017
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 ...
Scott Pruitt’s First Address to the EPA: As Annotated by EDGI
February 23, 2017
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 ...
Protecting Climate Data in Times of Political Turmoil – A Report from Los Angeles
January 31, 2017
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 ...
Building an Archive of Vulnerability: #GuerrillaArchiving at #UofT
January 2, 2017
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 ...
Field Report: Safeguarding environmental data through “Guerrilla Archiving”
December 23, 2016
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 ...
Our first archive-a-thon tomorrow!
December 16, 2016
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 ...
More press than we can keep track of!
December 15, 2016
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 ...