EDGI has been working diligently to plan for the future based on overwhelming and ongoing interest in data archiving and engagement with government data! Thanks to everyone who participated in the DataRescue Townhall on April 1, and also to the event organizers, attendees, and members of librarian, archival, and environmental advocacy communities who provided feedback … Read more
By EDGI’s Website Monitoring Committee: Gretchen Gehrke, Maya Anjur-Dietrich, Andrew Bergman, and Toly Rinberg (For inquiries, please contact edgi.websitemonitoring@protonmail.com) June 30, 2017 — On Tuesday, June 27, the EPA formally proposed a rule to rescind the Obama administration’s 2015 Clean Water Rule, which extended the authority of the federal government to regulate pollution in more wetlands … Read more
The EDGI tech team had a great time at the Mozilla Global Sprint from June 1-2, 2017! We identified some low-hanging fruit on our Web Montoring project that would be accessible to new contributors, and were rewarded with a big first-time contribution: Mock-ups of a new user interface for the web monitoring project We’ve been … Read more
EDGI just published a new report covering our activities since mid-November until the beginning of May! Some highlights: We’ve dramatically improved the Internet Archive’s “End-of-Term” project of archiving of federal environmental websites. Thanks to our effort, webpage nominations increased by 10-fold from those in 2012, and the EPA is now the Internet Archive’s most comprehensively … Read more
By Sarah Lamdan, Director of Legal Research, and members of the Website Tracking Committee: Andrew Bergman, Maya Anjur-Dietrich, Gretchen Gehrke, and Toly Rinberg (For inquiries, please contact Toly Rinberg at edgi.websitetracking@protonmail.com) May 5, 2017 11:00 AM ET— On February 15, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted a “mirror” or “snapshot” of its website as it … Read more
Statement by EDGI’s Website Tracking Committee April 28, 2017 11:00 PM ET—This evening, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an overhaul of its website, EPA.gov, to “reflect the agency’s new direction under President Donald Trump and Administrator Scott Pruitt.” The full statement regarding the website overhaul can be found here. At the time … Read more
EDGI is excited to sign on as an official partner of the #MarchforScience! We support the march’s mission, goals, and diversity principles, and we’re committed to advocating for scientific integrity and the continued role of evidence-based policy making. While science should remain nonpartisan, it is political. We’re encouraging our members and followers to come out … Read more
EDGI’s recently published analysis and research shows that the passage of H.R. 1430, or HONEST Act, would block the EPA from using the data it needs to fulfill its mission of protecting public health and the environment. Read the full publication and EDGI’s letter to Congress regarding H.R. 1430 as well.
Below you will find an annotated guide to Scott Pruitt’s first address to the EPA on behalf of the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative. With the attached annotated commentary, we at EDGI seek to explicate and decode the messages sent by the new Administrator. Feel free to use this report as a resource and disseminate … Read more
by The Southern California Climate Data Protection Project Countless historic settings have demanded archiving as a politically urgent tactic. In Nazi Germany individuals risked their lives smuggling suitcases of scholarly documents out of the country and into archives elsewhere, which is why we can now access the collected works of Edmund Husserl and Walter Benjamin. … Read more