Photo courtesy of Unsplash. By Kelsey Breseman EDGI’s work on environmental data justice (EDJ) examines the intersectional areas of environmental justice and data justice: what are the assumptions behind the gathering and use of data for environmental governance? Who do those assumptions empower, and who do they marginalize? Control over data, especially data that touches … Read more
By EHAC Steering Committee On June 16 and 17, 33 scholars will come together in “The Climate Crisis: Early Americanists Respond,” a workshop organized by EHAC (an EDGI working group), the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Early Modern Studies Institute, and the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. Why is the Environmental Historians Action … Read more
The EPA plans to retire its online archive in July 2022. Open Letter to EPA Asks Agency Not to Sunset its Online Archive June 13, 2022 – Today, environmental and archivist groups including the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Free Government Information published an open letter asking the … Read more
Image from Unsplash. By Kelsey Breseman The Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe is bringing a case against the City of Seattle over their treaty rights, specifically for mismanagement of the Skagit River watershed, which they say impede the rights of salmon to “exist, flourish, regenerate.” As a Tlingit who researches environmental governance, this story caught my attention. … Read more
The 2021 – 2023 cohort of Civic Science Fellows. EDGI’s fellows are hosted by the Rita Allen Foundation and funded in partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. By Mark Chambers During the past few months, EDGI’s Civic Science Fellows, Kelsey Breseman and Mark Chambers, have engaged in shared learning and collaboration with twenty other … Read more
Image shows the beta version of the federal Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. EDGI Urges CEQ to Incorporate Federal Enforcement Data into Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool In response to the call for public comments, EDGI calls on the Council on Environmental Quality to go further to address root causes of environmental racism. … Read more
The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative’s analysis of the most recent EPA data (2020) shows the top ten companies in terms of direct emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and the top ten in terms of supplying fuels that produce GHGs when combusted. The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative Releases Report on Carbon Emissions by US … Read more
In this post, we introduce EEW’s new open-source Jupyter Notebook for analyzing greenhouse gasses (GHGs) by the entities that either supply or emit them. This tool contributes to a reframing of accountability for climate change in terms of fossil fuel capitalism.
Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced through their Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance that they are launching “ECHO Notify.” According to the agency news release, the email alert tool “provides information on all EPA enforcement and compliance activities as well as activities of state and local governments under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.” The public can sign up to receive emails every week with information on activities taking place at facilities within a selected region.
EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch’s catalog of open federal environmental datasets. View the page here. By Kelsey Breseman, Megan Raisle, Eric Nost, Sara Wylie We are excited to announce a new catalog of open federal datasets now available through EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) website. EEW works with members of the public to analyze and present … Read more