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One Year into the Second Trump Administration, Defending the Environmental Right to Know is More Important Than Ever

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One Year into the Second Trump Administration, Defending the Environmental Right to Know is More Important Than Ever

January 20, 2026 — Today marks one year of the second Trump administration’s relentless attempt to dismantle federal environmental and public health protections. By attacking environmental data and science and undermining the public’s Environmental Right to Know (ERTK), the administration is directing federal agencies to serve polluting industry over the health of people and the … Read more

Proposed Endangered Species Act Revisions: EDGI Information Packet

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Proposed Endangered Species Act Revisions: EDGI Information Packet

History of the Endangered Species Act In April 2025, the Trump Administration proposed to rescind the definition of “harm” as it applied to the Endangered Species Act, in an attempt to remove the implication that habitat modification constitutes harm. In November 2025, the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced four proposed … Read more

EPA Communications Under Zeldin Politicized, Report Shows

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One Year into the Second Trump Administration, Defending the Environmental Right to Know is More Important Than Ever

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 18, 2025 CONTACT: Report authors are available to answer media questions. To arrange an interview, please direct media inquiries to shannanlenke.stoll@envirodatagov.org. EPA Communications Under Zeldin Politicized, Report Shows December 18, 2025 – Public communications issued by the current EPA’s press office are becoming more politicized, according to a new analysis issued … Read more

EPA Removes Information about Agency and Environmental History

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EPA Removes Information about Agency and Environmental History

A side-by-side view of the homepage for “EPA History” on May 28, 2025 (left), and November 24, 2025 (right), after links to several pages about EPA and environmental history were removed. Text highlighted in red has been removed; text highlighted in green has been added. Highlights From the Change Log: EPA Removes Information about Agency … Read more

EPA Scrubs Information About Climate Change Indicators and Impacts

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EPA Scrubs Information About Climate Change Indicators and Impacts

The Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis (CIRA) page on December 3, 2025 (left), and December 5, 2025 (right), after it was taken down. Highlights From the Change Log: EPA Scrubs Information About Climate Change Indicators and Impacts Welcome! This post is part of the EDGI Website Governance Team’s “Highlights From the Change Log” blog … Read more

NIEHS’s Only Journal – Environmental Health Perspectives – Is Suddenly Removed

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NIEHS’s Only Journal – Environmental Health Perspectives – Is Suddenly Removed

The NIEHS Environmental Health Perspectives home page on November 5, 2025  (left), and December 1, 2025 (right), after it was taken down. Highlights From the Change Log: NIEHS’s Only Journal – Environmental Health Perspectives – Is Suddenly Removed Welcome! This post is part of the EDGI Website Governance Team’s “Highlights From the Change Log” blog … Read more

Changes to EPA’s COBRA Tool Have Major Implications for Climate Policy

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Changes to EPA’s COBRA Tool Have Major Implications for Climate Policy

This post is part of the EDGI Website Governance Team’s “Highlights from the Change Log” blog series. The purpose of this series is to highlight interesting changes we have observed in the content of, or access to, federal websites. We want to share these changes to encourage public engagement with and discussion of their significance, as well as understanding of the ephemeral nature of website information. These website changes happened in Fall 2025 and feature changes to information about EPA’s regulatory analysis.

Trump Excuses Some of the Nation’s Riskiest Emitters From Clean Air Act Rules

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One Year into the Second Trump Administration, Defending the Environmental Right to Know is More Important Than Ever

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2025 CONTACT: Report authors are available to answer media questions. To arrange an interview, please direct media inquiries to shannanlenke.stoll@envirodatagov.org. Trump Excuses Some of the Nation’s Riskiest Emitters From Clean Air Act Rules  November 12, 2025 – Under President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin some of the nation’s largest … Read more

Threats to Drinking Water Call for Stronger Regulation and Enforcement

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Threats to Drinking Water Call for Stronger Regulation and Enforcement

By: Jennifer Epstein, Eric Nost, Christopher Cane, and Shannan Lenke Stoll This is an installment of our State of Environmental Protection series, where we use public data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate the claims and assumptions behind authoritarian attacks on federal environmental justice, science, and health. We question the idea that … Read more

Federal Agencies Post Incendiary Banners About the Government Shutdown

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Federal Agencies Post Incendiary Banners About the Government Shutdown

This post is part of the EDGI Website Governance Team’s “Highlights from the Change Log” blog series. The purpose of this series is to highlight interesting changes we have observed in the content of, or access to, federal websites. We want to share these changes to encourage public engagement with and discussion of their significance, as well as understanding of the ephemeral nature of website information. These website changes happened in October 2025 and feature various incendiary banners about the October government shutdown.