By: Jennifer Epstein, Eric Nost, Christopher Cane, and Shannan Lenke Stoll This is an installment of our State of Environmental Protection series, where we use public data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate the claims and assumptions behind authoritarian attacks on federal environmental justice, science, and health. We question the idea that … Read more
This post is part of the EDGI Website Governance Team’s “Highlights from the Change Log” blog series. The purpose of this series is to highlight interesting changes we have observed in the content of, or access to, federal websites. We want to share these changes to encourage public engagement with and discussion of their significance, as well as understanding of the ephemeral nature of website information. These website changes happened in October 2025 and feature various incendiary banners about the October government shutdown.
October 28, 2025 By Lelia Marie Hampton and Eric Nost Key Points Data centers are booming right now due to climbing demand for generative AI, cryptocurrency mining, and cloud computing services. The U.S. houses almost half of the world’s data centers, including the “data center capital of the world” in Virginia. These data centers are … Read more
This is an installment of our State of Environmental Protection series. This series utilizes public data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate the current state of our environment and recent trends over time, as well as claims and assumptions behind attacks on federal environmental justice, science, and health. We investigate the progress made since the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and numerous other environmental laws were put into effect during the 1970s. Moreover, we seek to understand the landscape of environmental regulation, responsibility, and harm originating from industry in the United States.
In July and August 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies altered and removed several webpages related to climate change. Pages spanned topics including climate adaptation and resilience, climate impacts, and the government’s role in addressing climate change.
Air quality monitors measure pollutants like particulate matter, ozone, and nitrogen oxides in the air we breathe—pollutants closely linked to public health. In the past, ways to measure air quality accurately and across many locations was a difficult task.
EPA Undermines Public Process and Ignores Evidence in Reconsideration of Endangerment Finding On September 22, 2025, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative’s (EDGI’s) Website Governance Team submitted a public comment in response to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Proposed Rule: Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards (Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194) under Section … Read more
EDGI is developing tools to facilitate communities’ use of the FOIA process. Our first tool is a series of state-by-state community-led FOIA guides.
This is the first installment of our State of Environmental Protection series. This series utilizes public data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate the current state of our environment and recent trends over time, as well as claims and assumptions behind attacks on federal environmental justice, science, and health. We investigate the progress made since the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and numerous other environmental laws were put into effect during the 1970s. Moreover, we seek to understand the landscape of environmental regulation, responsibility, and harm originating from industry in the United States.
EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch project is covering the state of environmental protection in the US today through a series of blog posts. The goal of this series is to orient our current position relative to the ambitious goals of the Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). What does a second Trump administration mean for the state of environmental law, compliance, and enforcement in the US?