Blog Archives – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

November 20, 2025November 20, 2025Blog, Highlights From the Change Log

Changes to EPA’s COBRA Tool Have Major Implications for Climate Policy

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 interesting changes we have observed in the content of, or access to, federal websites. We want to share these changes to encourage public engagement with and discussion of their significance, as well as understanding of the ephemeral nature of website information. These website changes happened in Fall 2025 and feature changes to information about EPA’s regulatory analysis.

November 12, 2025November 12, 2025Blog, Press release

Trump Excuses Some of the Nation’s Riskiest Emitters From Clean Air Act Rules

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2025 CONTACT: Report authors are available to answer media questions. To arrange an interview, please direct media […]

November 5, 2025November 4, 2025Blog

Threats to Drinking Water Call for Stronger Regulation and Enforcement

By: Jennifer Epstein, Eric Nost, Christopher Cane, and Shannan Lenke Stoll This is an installment of our State of Environmental Protection series, […]

October 29, 2025October 28, 2025Blog, Highlights From the Change Log

Federal Agencies Post Incendiary Banners About the Government Shutdown

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 interesting changes we have observed in the content of, or access to, federal websites. We want to share these changes to encourage public engagement with and discussion of their significance, as well as understanding of the ephemeral nature of website information. These website changes happened in October 2025 and feature various incendiary banners about the October government shutdown.

October 21, 2025October 21, 2025Blog

Surface Waters Under Threat

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 the current state of our environment and recent trends over time, as well as claims and assumptions behind attacks on federal environmental justice, science, and health. We investigate the progress made since the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and numerous other environmental laws were put into effect during the 1970s. Moreover, we seek to understand the landscape of environmental regulation, responsibility, and harm originating from industry in the United States.

October 14, 2025October 28, 2025Blog, Highlights From the Change Log

Trump Administration Intensifies Suppression of Climate Information

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 topics including climate adaptation and resilience, climate impacts, and the government’s role in addressing climate change.

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025Blog

Who Knows What’s in Our Air? A Case Study in Louisiana

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, ways to measure air quality accurately and across many locations was a difficult task.

September 25, 2025October 7, 2025Blog, Press release

EPA Undermines Public Process and Ignores Evidence in Reconsideration of Endangerment Finding

EPA Undermines Public Process and Ignores Evidence in Reconsideration of Endangerment Finding On September 22, 2025, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative’s […]

August 4, 2025August 4, 2025Blog

Community-Led FOIA: Introduction to the Project and the State-by-State Guide

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.

July 17, 2025October 13, 2025Blog

A New Wave of Air Toxics Demands Real Enforcement

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 evaluate the current state of our environment and recent trends over time, as well as claims and assumptions behind attacks on federal environmental justice, science, and health. We investigate the progress made since the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and numerous other environmental laws were put into effect during the 1970s. Moreover, we seek to understand the landscape of environmental regulation, responsibility, and harm originating from industry in the United States.