Blog Archives – Page 16 of 23 – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

March 30, 2020February 17, 2026Blog, New, Public Comment

EDGI’s Take on Proposed Revisions Undercutting the Migratory Bird Treaty Act

Photo: Jeffrey Hamilton By Marcy Beck, Gretchen Gehrke, and Aaron Lemelin EDGI welcomed the opportunity to comment on the U.S. Fish and […]

March 23, 2020November 4, 2025Blog, New

An Embattled Landscape, Part 2a: Coronavirus and the Three-Year Trump Quest to Slash Science at the CDC

Computer generated COVID-19 Coronavirus particle By Christopher Sellers, Leif Fredrickson, Alissa Cordner, Kelsey Breseman, Eric Nost, Kelly Wilkins, and EDGI Executive Summary […]

March 14, 2020February 17, 2026Blog, New, Public Comment

EDGI/EHAC Critiques Trump Admin’s Efforts to Weaken the National Environmental Policy Act

In January 2020, the Trump administration proposed dramatic regulatory changes that, if instituted, will undermine one of the nation’s most effective environmental […]

March 11, 2020October 15, 2025Blog, New

EDGI Coauthors Data Risk Categorization Paper with ESIP

By: Kelsey Breseman, EDGI The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) formed as an emergency effort to ensure public climate data stayed […]

March 9, 2020February 17, 2026Blog, New, Public Comment

EDGI Supports OSTP’s Effort to Improve Access to Federally Funded Research

EDGI’s comment supports this Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) effort to make data from federally funded research more available and accessible, with comments that focus on the importance of version-control, data accessibility, and facilitation of data utilization.

March 1, 2020October 24, 2025Blog, New

An Embattled Landscape: Federal Environmental Science Integrity in the United States Today, A Three Part Series — Part 1: Targeting Scientific Influence on Policy

By Chris Sellers, Kelsey Breseman, Leif Fredrickson, EDGI Abstract: Throughout the history of U.S. environmental legislation, science has rightly served as our […]