Environmental governance is at a pivotal moment. With the shifting legal landscape over the last eight years, including the spate of Supreme Court (SCOTUS) rulings earlier this summer, environmental protections are being undermined from multiple angles. The future of environmental regulations and the regulatory state are perhaps more vulnerable than at any other time in recent history.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) held a Surplus Plutonium Disposition Public Comment Meeting on September 4, 2012 at the North Augusta, […]
EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) team hosted ‘Building Civic Technologies for Environmental Data Justice,’ a five-part workshop series that explored the tools […]
Today EDGI launched our Public Comments Initiative, a project that aims to help people and organizations understand and more effectively engage in […]
EDGI submitted a public comment in response to the White House Office of Management and Budget’s Request for Information, “Methods and Leading […]
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The EPA released draft Guidelines for Cumulative Risk Assessment Planning and Problem Formulation last year. This is a crucial step for the […]
Late last fall, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) sought to gather information and feedback for developing a coordinated Federal […]
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A paradigmatic case of the “sacrifice zone,” West Port Arthur and similar neighborhoods in Beaumont also epitomize the cumulative impacts faced by America’s most environmentally burdened communities.