New Environmental Justice Grants Map Highlights Impacts of EPA Fund Cancellations

New Environmental Justice Grants Map Highlights Impacts of EPA Fund Cancellations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2025 CONTACT: EDGI’s experts are available to answer media questions. For media inquiries, please email Shannan Lenke Stoll at shannanlenke.stoll@envirodatagov.org and Kelly Steinrueck at kelly.w.steinrueck@envirodatagov.org. New Environmental Justice Grants Map Highlights Impacts of EPA Fund Cancellations March 20, 2025 – The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative and Public Environmental Data … Read more

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

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. 

EDGI’s Response to the EPA’s New “ECHO Notify” Tool for Enforcement and Compliance

EDGI’s Response to the EPA’s New “ECHO Notify” Tool for Enforcement and Compliance

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.