The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is monitoring changes to information and data on federal websites to hold our government accountable. Interested? Contact Jake Wylie at edgi.websitemonitoring@protonmail.com EDGI is monitoring tens of thousands of federal web pages to understand and reveal the ways in which public digital environmental information and access to information is … Read more
The Environmental Protection Agency made news recently for excluding reporters from a “summit” meeting on chemical contamination in drinking water. Episodes like this are symptoms of a larger problem: an ongoing, broad-scale takeover of the agency by industries it regulates.
As a student, did you ever ask yourself, What is the point of all this? When education feels disconnected from practical implications, it can be hard to see the sense in studying for another exam or writing another paper. Making a difference in society might not even enter consideration. Now, imagine trading in some of … Read more
EDGI welcomed the opportunity to comment on the EPA’s Proposed Rule to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP) in April, 2018. Our comment document, Continued Access to Online EPA Resources Relevant to the Clean Power Plan is Important for Public Engagement in Rulemaking, focuses on removals of online Clean Power Plan resources that constrain the … Read more
The Trump administration, including Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt, has undertaken an assault on environmental health protections. This assault includes deregulation, defunding, staff cuts, and the corrosion of science-based policy. This assault is severe, but is it unprecedented? Based on EDGI’s research, recently published in the American Journal of Public Health, the answer … Read more
Dear Readers, We write with the remarkable news that we have just received our first sustaining grant from the Packard Foundation for $500,000 to support EDGI for the next 2 years. This vital investment in our future is built on the work of hundreds of volunteers and support from fiscal and in-kind donors over the … Read more
Our partners at the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
invited EDGI over for lunch…
The Internet Archive is a non-profit library
of millions of free books, movies,
software, music, websites, and more
and their wayback machine
has saved more than
325 billion web pages over time
photos by Jamie Lyons
Our collaboration with PageFreezer began on the eve of President Trump’s inauguration. Michael Riedijk heard about EDGI’s website archiving and monitoring efforts and reached out in an email saying: “I’m the CEO of PageFreezer.com, the largest commercial website archiving provider and I believe this is an important cause.” Anticipating rapid changes to federal websites, that … Read more
In this guest post, Stephanie Rosen, the Accessibility Specialist for the University of Michigan Library, shares her thoughts on the recent removal of 92 documents from the National Park Service’s Climate Friendly Parks Program and responds to the rationale offered by NPS that this was done solely to ensure they meet accessibility requirements. Stylized graphic … Read more
Report released: Changing the Digital Climate On January 10, 2018 the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) will release Changing the Digital Climate: How Climate Change Web Content is Being Censored Under the Trump Administration, the third installment of EDGI’s series of reports evaluating the environmental impacts of the first year of the Trump administration. … Read more