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
On Thursday, April 29th, EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch project (EEW) hosted our first open hour of the year to provide a networking space and structured conversation around the challenges participants from across the country face producing, using, and accessing environmental data for justice. Then, participants tried out EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) tool … Read more
Chelsea River, aka Chelsea Creek, is the site of seven oil storage facilities whose permits, issued by EPA Region 1 under National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems (NPDES), are up for renewal this year. These facilities store 70-80% of the New England region’s heating oil and all of the jet fuel for the Boston Logan International … Read more
We propose a set of policies that support these aims through better data practice: a Green New Deal for environmental data.
By Kelsey Breseman EDGI is proud to announce an all-new Code of Conduct (see below), which places fresh emphasis on the values we embrace (rather than simply what behaviors will be disallowed) and references a restorative justice-based toolkit for conflict resolution. The new Code of Conduct, a replacement to EDGI’s former Code of Conduct, applies … Read more
On Wednesday, April 14, from 2:30 – 4PM Eastern, come join us for the webinar, “From Besieged to Bolstered? The Biden Environmental Transition.”
Just one week into Biden’s presidency, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced its intent to review the effectiveness of scientific integrity policies across federal agencies, stating that, “scientific findings should never be distorted or influenced by political considerations.” The OSTP review provides an opportunity to address the policy gaps in the governance of public information found on the websites of federal agencies, an issue that the website monitoring team of the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative has been tracking since the beginning of the Trump presidency.
EDGI’s data program examines the role of environmental data and its governance through the lenses of power, justice, and equity: Which communities are invited to participate in environmental data’s production and management, in what ways, and which are not.
The BLM has removed the phrase “all of the above energy approach.” The image on the left shows BLM’s “Energy and Minerals” webpage on January 20, 2021, and the image on the right shows the same webpage on January 21, 2021. Text highlighted in red was deleted; text highlighted in green was added. Welcome! This … Read more