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
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 las comunidades latinas con la accesibilidad a la información ambiental.
On May 13, EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) hosted an online event about the obstacles Latinx Communities face with accessibility to environmental information.
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 teaming up with the Government Accountability Project and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund to document threats to science.
EDGI is honored to announce that the David & Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded us a generous grant to sustain and expand our work over the next two years. Supported by previous funding through the Packard Foundation, EDGI identified gaps in policies that enabled the Trump administration to undermine science, roll-back environmental protections, scrub public … Read more
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) project. EEW is an online public research project investigating patterns in violations of federal environmental regulations and the enforcement of environmental laws. The web developer will work with a UX … Read more