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 McNeil Center for Early American Studies, EHAC is currently soliciting proposals from scholars that trace the connections between the climate crisis and its roots in early American history. Through a 1-2 day workshop … Read more
January 20, 2022 – Today, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI)’s Website Monitoring Team releases Work in Progress: Governance of Digital Environmental Information In the Biden Administration’s First Year. The report analyzes changes in governance of environmental information found on federal agency websites at the one year mark under President Biden. It assesses the … Read more
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.
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.
By Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Despite garnering strong support from many groups in civil society, Juliana v. US has not been successful so far. Even though dangerous climate change is increasingly likely according to the IPCC, the American justice system has tended to see the issue as a political rather than a constitutional responsibility. Now, however, … Read more
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.
By David Wiczer (Economics, Stony Brook University) and Christopher Sellers (History, Stony Brook University) The carbon tax, long hailed as among the most promising means for curbing the greenhouse emissions that cause climate change, has often faltered politically, through disagreements over how to distribute its burdens. By itself, a tax on fossil fuels can stir controversy … Read more
EDGI is five years old! To celebrate, we hosted a virtual celebration on Wednesday, November 3, to reflect on our progress and growth: from an email chain and burst of civic activity to a respected, established organization with staff and volunteers who engage in ongoing research and tool building around environmental data and governance. We … Read more
On Wednesday, November 3, 2021, from 8-9PM Eastern / 5-6PM Pacific, EDGI will hold a birthday celebration of our fifth year as an organization! Join us as we reflect on our recent accomplishments and hear from Kelsey Breseman, Chris Sellers, Marianne Sullivan, and other working group leads about what to expect going forward – and … Read more
On Wednesday, October 27 at 1PM Eastern/4PM Pacific, the Environmental Data Governance Initiative’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) will hold an event as part of Hacktoberfest, a month-long series of events by and for the open source community. EEW’s event will include a brief demonstration of one of EEW’s open source Jupyter Notebook followed by time to explore and hack on the project.