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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
October 28, 2025 By Lelia Marie Hampton and Eric Nost Key Points Data centers are booming right now due to climbing demand for generative AI, cryptocurrency mining, and cloud computing services. The U.S. houses almost half of the world’s data centers, including the “data center capital of the world” in Virginia. These data centers are … Read more
This is an installment of our State of Environmental Protection series. This series utilizes public data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate the current state of our environment and recent trends over time, as well as claims and assumptions behind attacks on federal environmental justice, science, and health. We investigate the progress made since the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and numerous other environmental laws were put into effect during the 1970s. Moreover, we seek to understand the landscape of environmental regulation, responsibility, and harm originating from industry in the United States.
In July and August 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies altered and removed several webpages related to climate change. Pages spanned topics including climate adaptation and resilience, climate impacts, and the government’s role in addressing climate change.