EDGI Releases 2019 Annual Report
EDGI has just released its 2019 Annual Report. We’ve grown and matured as an organization, and have been busy over the past […]
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Using Visualization to Illuminate Shifting Climate Rhetorics
Written by Steven Braun As an information designer and visualizer of data, I am often tasked with an important challenge: developing a […]
EPA MUST PROVIDE MORE ACCESSIBLE AND INFORMATIVE RESOURCES FOR AUTHENTIC PUBLIC COMMENT
EDGI’s comment focuses on removals of and reductions in access to online resources directly relevant to the proposed redefinition of Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act (CWA) that constrain the public’s ability to effectively participate in this rulemaking process, to understand the impacts of the proposed changes to which aquatic resources would be designated as jurisdictional, and to track CWA implementation.
Worked for “entities accused of violating DOI regulations” and other omissions in the (Nominated) Secretary for the Interior, David Bernhardt’s, Official Bio.
Authors: Jesse DiValli, Sara Wylie, Gretchen Gehrke The Department of Interior’s (DOI) biography page for David Bernhardt, the nominee for Secretary of […]
Sage Grouse Informational Resources on BLM Website Inadequate for Public Participation in Management Plan Amendments
Image credit: Bob Wick Report: Reduction in Access to Sage Grouse Conservation Information and Resource on BLM Websites The sage grouse, […]
Climate Change Information Gone from DOI Website
By Gretchen Gehrke EDGI Report: DOI Further Restricts Access to Climate Change Web Pages The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) manages […]
Fish and Wildlife Service removed online resources after controversial opinion on incidental take
Image: A capture of FWS.gov’s 404 error page. Users will no longer be able to access the site’s “Incidental Take” page. Blog […]
EDGI’s Congressional Testimony for Energy and Commerce Subcommittee Hearing: “EPA Enforcement: Taking the Environmental Cop off the Beat”
On Tuesday February 26th Professor Chris Sellers from Stony Brook University testified on behalf of EDGI for the House Energy and Commerce […]
EPA initiated fewer civil cases in 2018 than it has in over 35 years (and other red flags of weak enforcement)
2018 was one of the weakest, perhaps the weakest, enforcement year for the EPA in decades.
Pollution and Hazardous Waste Reduction Is the Lowest on Record Under Trump’s EPA
Contrary to the EPA’s recently released “Year in Review,” we are not on a path to a safer, cleaner future.