Catalog of Open Federal Datasets Available on EEW’s Site
EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch’s catalog of open federal environmental datasets. View the page here. By Kelsey Breseman, Megan Raisle, Eric Nost, Sara […]
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Environmental Enforcement Watch’s Interactive Data Research Tools Now Available on Website
EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch’s new landing page for their open source environmental data science tools. View the page here. By Kelsey Breseman, […]
The Environmental Historians Action Collaborative Co-Organizes Conference on the Climate Crisis
EDGI’s Environmental Historians Action Collaborative (EHAC) is co-organizing a conference on the climate crisis to take place June 16-17, 2022. With the […]
EDGI’s Website Monitoring Team Releases Report on Federal Web Governance in Biden’s First Year
January 20, 2022 – Today, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI)’s Website Monitoring Team releases Work in Progress: Governance of Digital […]
EDGI’s Website Monitoring Team Analyzes Extreme Politicization of EPA News Releases Under Trump
Today, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI)’s Website Monitoring Team releases Crossing the Line: Analyzing EPA news releases under Trump and ensuring trust in federal information in the future. This report examines the politicization of EPA’s news releases under the Trump administration and recommends guidelines for protection of the integrity of information coming from the EPA’s press office.
Meet EDGI’s New Civic Science Fellows
EDGI is thrilled to announce that we’re a host organization for two civic science fellows from 2021-2023. These fellowships are funded in partnership with the Rita Allen Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Fellows will develop civic science systems, knowledge, and approaches to strengthen inclusive, thriving, equity-centered engagement with science at the intersection of science and society. EDGI’s two fellows—Kelsey Breseman and Mark Chambers—bring their respective technical and ethnographic skill sets together to work that bridges several EDGI working groups.
Led by Environmental Historians Action Collaborative, EDGI signs on to Letter in Support of Juliana v. US Plaintiffs
By Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Despite garnering strong support from many groups in civil society, Juliana v. US has not been successful so […]
EDGI’s Public Comment on EPA’s Strategic Plan for 2022-2026
On Friday, November 12, 2021, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative’s (EDGI’s) Website Monitoring Team submitted a public comment to the Environmental Protection Agency on their 2022-2026 strategic plan, which sets the agency’s priorities for the next four years.
The Carbon Tax Meets the Suburbs: Projecting the Equity Impacts of New York’s Proposed Climate and Community Investment Act
By David Wiczer (Economics, Stony Brook University) and Christopher Sellers (History, Stony Brook University) The carbon tax, long hailed as among the most […]
EDGI’s Fifth Birthday Celebration
EDGI is five years old! To celebrate, we hosted a virtual celebration on Wednesday, November 3, to reflect on our progress and […]