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EPA’s Website Overhaul Continues: Climate Resources Left Out of the Update to the “Climate and Energy Resources for State, Local, and Tribal Governments” Website

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EPA’s Website Overhaul Continues: Climate Resources Left Out of the Update to the “Climate and Energy Resources for State, Local, and Tribal Governments” Website

By members of EDGI’s Website Monitoring Team: Toly Rinberg, Andrew Bergman, and Eric Nost In the first example of returned content since the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began overhauling its climate change website on April 28, a new website providing content about energy policy for state, local and tribal governments has replaced a previous website, … Read more

Removing Clean Power Plan Web Resources Undermines Public Engagement

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By Toly Rinberg and Andrew Bergman, members of EDGI’s Website Monitoring Committee Originally posted on the UCS Equation On Monday, Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced his long awaited formal proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan, the defining regulation in President Barack Obama’s battle against climate change. Talk of the repeal … Read more

Changes to USGS website highlight the importance of search for public access

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By Toly Rinberg and Andrew Bergman, members of EDGI’s Website Monitoring Committee (Cross-posted on Sunlight Foundation) As has been true for decades, the ways public data are stored and presented on federal government websites can sometimes be tricky for the public to understand, access, use, and re-use. As federal websites have been changing under the … Read more

EDGI Highlights Environmental Justice Implications in Part 2 of the First 100 Days and Counting

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EDGI Highlights Environmental Justice Implications in Part 2 of the First 100 Days and Counting

The first six months of the Trump Administration have reversed decades of progress toward environmental justice. The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) continues its series of reports on the Trump administration’s impacts on environmental policy and data governance, this time focusing on Environmental Justice, the right for all communities to human and environmental health. … Read more

Wrapping up Google Summer of Code 2017

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Wrapping up Google Summer of Code 2017

EDGI is grateful to have participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the first time in 2017. Our mentoring team of six volunteer EDGI members worked with two students, Harsh Baid and Janak Raj Chadha, who successfully completed projects for our Archiving and Web Monitoring areas. Their dedication and work led them to make … Read more

Towards an Environmental Data Justice Statement: Initial Thoughts

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Towards an Environmental Data Justice Statement: Initial Thoughts

On August 28 at Northeastern University in Boston, EDGI convened an interdisciplinary group of Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars, civic tech practitioners, and community science organizers who work on either environmental or data politics to begin collectively imagining Environmental Data Justice (EDJ) as a framework for engaged STS. We came together to create a … Read more

Google Summer of Code 2017: Harsh Baid – Data Visualizations

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Written by Harsh Baid. Reblogged with permission from Harsh Baid’s Blog: https://harshbaid.com/blog/2017/working-with-edgi/ Introduction Over the past 3 months, as part of Google Summer of Code 2017 (GSoC), I spent my time working with the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI). EDGI is a network of scientists, professors, and other non-profits that came together in response … Read more

Environmental and Public Interest Groups Condemn Racist Violence and Intolerance in Charlottesville, Virginia

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Environmental and Public Interest Groups Condemn Racist Violence and Intolerance in Charlottesville, Virginia

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A broad coalition of environmental, public health and public interest groups, including prominent African American and Latino organizations, issued the following joint statement in response to this past weekend’s white nationalist gathering and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia and President Trump’s inexplicable reversal as to who’s to blame for the violence: “Our nation … Read more

Google Summer of Code 2017: Janak Raj Chadha – Web Monitoring Project

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Google Summer of Code 2017: Janak Raj Chadha – Web Monitoring Project

Written by Janak Raj Chadha. Identifying and Prioritizing Important Website Changes Introduction The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is an international network of academics and non-profits addressing potential threats to federal environmental and energy policy, and to the scientific research infrastructure built to investigate and inform. EDGI monitors thousands of government webpages to identify … Read more

Removals and Access Reductions on the USDA’s “Climate Hubs” Website Prompt Concerns About Transparency and Public Access

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By Members of EDGI’s Website Monitoring Committee: Andrew Bergman (@andmbergman), Toly Rinberg, and Gretchen Gehrke  (For inquiries, please contact edgi.websitemonitoring@protonmail.com) August 3, 2017 – Between the evenings of July 27 and July 28, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) removed substantial portions of its Climate Hubs website, hosted at the URL https://www.climatehubs.oce.usda.gov/. This is how the … Read more