Blog Archives – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

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.

June 26, 2025June 26, 2025Blog

State of Environmental Protection: Introduction to the Series

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 this series is to orient our current position relative to the ambitious goals of the Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). What does a second Trump administration mean for the state of environmental law, compliance, and enforcement in the US?

June 5, 2025June 5, 2025Blog, Highlights From the Change Log

EPA Removes Information About its HBCU and Minority Serving Institutions Advisory Council

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 webpage dedicated to this advisory council along with its entry from the landing page for all Federal Advisory Committees at EPA. The EPA’s Office of Public Engagement and Environmental Education landing page deleted all information about working with HBCU-MSIs, including a paragraph and multiple links describing EPA’s activities with HBCU-MSIs and the HBCU-MSI Advisory Council. The pages that had been linked are no longer functional; all now return errors saying, “Sorry, but this web page does not exist.”

May 19, 2025June 4, 2025Blog, Highlights From the Change Log

NOAA removes “Teaching Climate” resources from Climate.gov

Highlights from the Change Log: NOAA removes “Teaching Climate” resources from Climate.gov Welcome! This post is part of the EDGI Website Monitoring […]