Published:
February 22, 2023
EPA Enforcement Still Struggling to Recover Under Biden
The report EPA Enforcement Still Struggling to Recover Under Biden examines the slow to minimal progress the Biden Administration has made restoring the capacity of the EPA to handle enforcement ...
Published:
February 13, 2023
2022 Annual Report
LETTER FROM OUR COORDINATING COMMITTEE We are very grateful to present this annual report for fiscal year 2022. In the midst of the intensifying climate emergency and growing evidence about ...
Published:
October 31, 2022
50 Years After the Clean Water Act, Toxic Chemicals it Regulates are Still Used in Fracking
This October marks the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the United States’ primary federal legislation protecting water quality. The CWA is meant to minimize water pollution in ...
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September 28, 2022
How Gaps and Disparities in EPA Data Undermine Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tools
The report How Gaps and Disparities in EPA Data Undermine Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tools examines gaps and disparities in the data the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses ...
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January 20, 2022
Work in Progress: Governance of Digital Environmental Information In the Biden Administration’s First Year
Throughout its first year, the Biden administration has conveyed the importance it places on public information. Websites are the primary medium of communication from federal agencies to the public, and ...
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December 21, 2021
Crossing the Line: Analyzing EPA News Releases Under Trump and Ensuring Trust in Federal Information in the Future
Crossing the Line: Analyzing EPA News Releases Under Trump and Ensuring Trust in Federal Information in the Future examines the politicization of EPA’s news releases under the Trump administration and ...
Published:
August 31, 2021
EDGI 2021 Annual Report
OPEN PDF LETTER FROM OUR COORDINATING COMMITTEE In the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)’s first four years, we tracked harms to federal environmental governance in the United States made ...
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February 25, 2021
Access Denied: Federal Web Governance Under the Trump Administration
Access Denied: Federal Web Governance Under the Trump Administration examines the Trump administration’s management of federal websites related to environmental regulation and makes recommendations for the Biden administration moving forward ...
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October 22, 2020
Democratizing Data: Environmental Enforcement Watch’s Report Cards for Congressional Oversight of the EPA
On October 22, 2020, EDGI released the Democratizing Data: Environmental Enforcement Watch’s Report Cards for Congressional Oversight of the EPA report and project. The summary report provides, for the first ...
Published:
July 13, 2020
EDGI Annual Report 2020
OPEN PDF LETTER FROM OUR COORDINATING COMMITTEE Our Annual Report celebrates and reviews EDGI’s meaningful work in the last year. In this letter we wish to reflect on the enormity ...
Published:
July 22, 2019
The New Digital Landscape: How the Trump Administration Has Undermined Federal Web Infrastructures for Climate Information
In this report, we build on our existing research to present a broad analysis of how the Trump administration has altered the use of terms related to climate change on ...
Published:
April 8, 2019
EDGI Annual Report 2019
In the past year, we have had the opportunity to grow and mature as an organization, to make important contributions to highlighting the dismantling of federal environmental protections, and to ...
Published:
May 31, 2019
A Sheep in the Closet: The Erosion of Enforcement at the EPA
This report examines environmental enforcement at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) two years into the Trump administration. Based on extensive interviewing with EPA employees and recent retirees as well ...
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March 1, 2018
EDGI Annual Report 2018
In the last year, we have formed a thriving organization, supported almost entirely by volunteer labor, driven by a shared concern about the dismantling of federal environmental protections. Together, we’ve ...
Published:
January 10, 2018
Changing the Digital Climate
The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) continues its series of reports on the Trump administration’s impacts on environmental policy and data governance. “Changing the Digital Climate” is the third ...
Published:
September 19, 2017
Pursuing A Toxic Agenda
The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) continues its series of reports on the Trump administration’s impacts on environmental policy and data governance, this time focusing on Environmental Justice, the ...
Published:
June 19, 2017
The EPA Under Siege
In the first report of its kind, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) has conducted an in-depth analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Trump and Administrator Scott ...
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May 5, 2017
EDGI Introduction and Accomplishments — Report
May report covering highlights of EDGI’s projects include monitoring and analyzing changes to federal environmental agency websites, and researching the effects of environmental deregulation and changes at federal agencies, such ...
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March 27, 2017
Public Protections Under Threat at the EPA: Examining Safeguards and Programs That Would Have Been Blocked by H.R. 1430 — White Paper
Protecting safe drinking water and healthy air depends on the EPA’s ability to incorporate the best available evidence from all scientific fields of study into its risk assessments and regulation ...
Published:
February 1, 2017
Introducing the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative — Report
As we follow the impacts of the transition on agency websites, operations, capacities, and policies, we’ll be preparing and posting here other written works, oriented to general as well as ...