Blog Archives – Page 4 of 23 – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

January 13, 2025January 20, 2026Blog, Press release

PRESS RELEASE: EDGI Works to Safeguard Federal Environmental Data and Information

In anticipation of a second and likely more significant assault on federal environmental information by the Trump administration, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) is ramping up its website monitoring work, coordinating a broad multi-organizational data preservation effort, and expanding its civic data science tools for accessing federal environmental data. EDGI is also supporting the End of Term Archive as it works to build the largest archive of federal web-based data and information ever created.

January 10, 2025October 27, 2025Blog, New

3 Ways Trump’s EPA Could Use the Language of Science to Weaken Pollution Controls

President Donald J. Trump tours the Pratt Industries plant with Pratt Industries Executive Chairman Anthony Pratt Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, in Wapakoneta, […]

October 25, 2024October 25, 2024Blog, Get Involved

EDGI’s Environmental Historians Annotate Project 2025

EDGI’s Environmental Historians Action Collaborative working group annotated select chapters and sections of Project 2025 related to the environment, providing important context and fact-checking […]

October 14, 2024January 31, 2025Blog, Get Involved

A New Legal Landscape for Environmental Regulations

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.

September 17, 2024September 19, 2024Blog, Get Involved

SCOTUS Scrutiny and the Future of Public Commenting

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) held a Surplus Plutonium Disposition Public Comment Meeting on September 4, 2012 at the North Augusta, […]

August 2, 2024October 3, 2024Blog, Get Involved

Explore Our Alternative Tools for Contextualizing Hard-to-Access EPA Data

EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) team hosted ‘Building Civic Technologies for Environmental Data Justice,’ a five-part workshop series that explored the tools […]

July 23, 2024July 23, 2024Blog, Get Involved

EDGI Launches Project to Shed Light On the Public Comment Process

Today EDGI launched our Public Comments Initiative, a project that aims to help people and organizations understand and more effectively engage in […]

May 17, 2024February 26, 2026Blog, Public Comment

Advancing Public Participation and Community Engagement with the Federal Government

This comment stresses that the federal government should strive to increase the tangible impact of public participation in federal decision-making. To do this, EDGI recommends OMB design public participation processes that have the appropriate timing and depth to meaningfully influence government actions, and to develop standards for information management to ensure the public can easily learn about issues and opportunities for input.