EPA Scrubs Information About Climate Change Indicators and Impacts
The Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis (CIRA) page on December 3, 2025 (left), and December 5, 2025 (right), after it was […]
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NIEHS’s Only Journal – Environmental Health Perspectives – Is Suddenly Removed
The NIEHS Environmental Health Perspectives home page on November 5, 2025 (left), and December 1, 2025 (right), after it was taken down. […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]