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Join us November 3 for Lessons on FOIA and Environmental Information Access in the Trump Era
Seating is limited, please RSVP soon! On Saturday, November 3, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative members Jake Wylie and Kevin Nguyen will be speaking at an all-day event hosted by our friends at the CUNY School of Law. We’ll be talking about changes our Web Monitoring research group has found in information access and how our … Read more
Caging Nature, Caging Humans
For this guest post, EDGI has invited Dr. Mary E. Mendoza’s commentary on the border wall and justice for humans and non-humans alike. Mendoza calls for combining our thinking about human and ecological systems in order to create conditions where diversity thrives. by Mary E. Mendoza Environmental destruction and human misery have gone hand in … Read more
EPA’s Proposed Rule Uses the Idea of Transparency to Reduce Real Transparency and Delay Protecting Environmental and Public Health
Public access to the data and models undergirding environmental regulation sounds appealing. But there are several reasons to think that the EPA’s call for “transparency” is disingenuous and that this rule would actually undermine science and public knowledge.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards Generous Grant to EDGI to Expand its Work
EDGI is excited to announce that the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) has awarded us a generous grant to sustain and expand our work. Over the next two years, we will use the DDCF’s $200,000 grant to build on our work archiving vulnerable government data and monitoring critical changes to government websites. EDGI has played … Read more
Volunteer Position: Website Monitoring Analyst
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
EPA staff say the Trump administration is changing their mission from protecting human health and the environment to protecting industry
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.
Web Monitoring in the Classroom Builds Information Literacy, Civic Engagement
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
Comment on the EPA’s Proposed Rule to Repeal the Clean Power Plan Focuses on Access to Online Resources
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
Paving the Way for Trump: Past Presidential Assaults on Environmental Health Protection
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