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 email chain and burst of civic activity to a respected, established organization with staff and volunteers who engage in ongoing research and tool building around environmental data and governance. We … Read more
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 us as we reflect on our recent accomplishments and hear from Kelsey Breseman, Chris Sellers, Marianne Sullivan, and other working group leads about what to expect going forward – and … Read more
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, a month-long series of events by and for the open source community. EEW’s event will include a brief demonstration of one of EEW’s open source Jupyter Notebook followed by time to explore and hack on the project.
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 EPA’s activities addressing climate change, from its various partnership initiatives to regulatory actions.
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, and sick leave Expected hours: 20 hours per week; flexible schedule Location: Fully remote Position Description The Development Lead will develop and implement the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative’s (EDGI’s) … Read more
By Eric Nost, Megan Raisle, Steve Hansen, Kelsey Breseman, Lourdes Vera, Sara Wylie, and EDGI In Brief Why We Created a Watershed Notebook Who’s responsible for this mess? As the intertwined climate-public health crisis grows, more and more people are confronting the harms wrought by fossil fuels and toxics industries in their neighborhoods. As hurricanes … Read more
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 Watch (EEW) team has developed tools aimed at making our event—including the tools, language, and data we use at events—as accessible to the public as possible. At EEW events held … Read more
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 decisions during the Trump administration that were at odds with scientific integrity and undermined public trust. The comment then relays a series of recommendations to promote and protect the free flow of scientific information from the government to the public, and utilize websites as a vehicle for building public trust in the government by facilitating greater environmental, scientific, and civic literacy.
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 EPA? A People’s EPA releases a new history of enforcement at the EPA to show how the agency has changed over the years and provide context for the latest news … Read more
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 in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database. EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch project (EEW) helps environmental advocacy groups learn about federal environmental governance in … Read more