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 for the public: Project 2025 proposes to severely reduce the federal role in environmental protections of all sorts. Its arguments for doing so operate through its failure throughout to acknowledge or even to name … Read more
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.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) held a Surplus Plutonium Disposition Public Comment Meeting on September 4, 2012 at the North Augusta, SC Municipal Building. By Gretchen Gehrke and Alejandro Paz A spate of US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) rulings decided this summer will have dramatic and damaging effects on how federal agencies issue and enforce … Read more
EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) team hosted ‘Building Civic Technologies for Environmental Data Justice,’ a five-part workshop series that explored the tools they’re building for contextualizing hard-to-access EPA data. The tools focus on analyzing cumulative impacts, mapping schools near hazardous air pollutants, and summarizing enforcement of and compliance with laws like the Clean Air Act … Read more
Today EDGI launched our Public Comments Initiative, a project that aims to help people and organizations understand and more effectively engage in the public commenting process when new rules are proposed by federal agencies. While federal agencies do take seriously the role of public comments in the regulatory process (e.g. GAO, 2020), public commenting remains … Read more
Join the EDGI team! We’re looking to hire a a summer research intern to help coordinate a public online research project. This role will be investigating and making available federal environmental records from FOIA requests, helping build community-led resources (maps, info sheets, etc.), and assisting with online/digital humanities projects. Anticipated Start Date: Beginning of June, … Read more
EDGI’s comments on this proceeding focus on removals of online Clean Power Plan
(CPP) resources, removals that constrain the public’s ability to effectively participate
in the rulemaking process. Reduced access to related resources, especially the
EPA’s climate change websites, also constrains the ability of stakeholders and
regulated entities to stay abreast of implementation feasibility and responsibilities
under the CPP. Finally, access to these resources should continue to be a priority
for effective public participation in relation to the EPA’s ongoing responsibilities for
regulating greenhouse gases
Join us! We are looking to hire a new, collaborative team member to join EDGI to help with communications—network-wide and with the broader public.
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