EDGI organizes its work under five major working groups. Learn about each in the dropdown menu of the “Working Groups” tab. Briefly, EDGI’s currently active working groups are:
- Policy Monitoring and Interviewing, which investigates and analyzes the inner workings of federal environmental policy through interviewing of agency staff as well as data and documentary collection and analysis;
- Environmental Historians Action Collaborative, which promotes conversations among historians and history educators about environmental crises and amplifies existing research and pedagogy for a wider audience;
- Website Governance, which monitors changes to, and explores standards for, web-based information about the environment, energy, and climate provided by the federal government;
- Environmental Data Justice, which imagines, conceptualizes, and works toward Environmental Data Justice;
- Alternative Organization, which prototypes new organizational structures and practices for distributed, collective, effective work rooted in justice.
Our Data Governance working group is currently dormant. When active, this working group develops new ways of making federal environmental data more accessible to the public.