Check out our recent coverage highlights, as well as EDGI member op-eds. Full coverage of EDGI is documented below.
Recent Highlights
Trump officials removed web tools that interpret environmental data. V…
There’s been a lot of news about the removal of environmental, health and diversity data from …
April 3, 2025
America’s digital infrastructure belongs to you
COMMENTARY | We’ve seen unprecedented attacks on our nation’s federal digital infrastructure, from removing or restricting …
April 3, 2025
How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory H…
Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an …
April 1, 2025
Trump National Security Officials: Add NOAA to the Chat for Climate Li…
Growl. Sigh. Rinse. Repeat. Yet another resource that belongs to us, the US public, has disappeared …
March 27, 2025
Trump’s DEI Data Purge
As datasets and web pages across the federal government disappear to comply with President Donald Trump’s …
March 26, 2025
Researchers Rush to Save US Government Data on Trans Youth—Before It D…
In the face of the Trump administration’s anti-trans efforts, researchers and volunteers around the world are …
March 21, 2025
The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE? …
March 15, 2025
Saving U.S. Climate and Environmental Data Before It Goes Away
Some 2,000 records went missing from government data sets after the Trump administration took office in …
March 11, 2025
In Trump’s new purge of climate language, even ‘resilience’ isn’t safe
In his first hours back in the White House in January, President Donald Trump signed an …
March 11, 2025
Op-Eds
How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t …
Government scientists at NOAA collect and provide crucial public information about coastal conditions that businesses, individuals …
February 14, 2025
3 ways Trump’s EPA could use the language of science to weaken polluti…
The Trump administration is widely expected to loosen regulations on polluting industries …
January 8, 2025
SCOTUS Scrutiny and the Future of Public Commenting
A spate of US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) rulings decided this summer will have dramatic and damaging …
September 14, 2024
Introducing the Public Comments Initiative
Public comments and their impact on scientific integrity in federal rulemaking …
August 27, 2024
The EPA Is Shuttering its Online Archive: Why that Matters
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it will be discontinuing its online archive in July …
March 17, 2022
How the Biden Administration Can Protect Federal Environmental Informa…
In a healthy democracy, the public needs to be able to trust information disseminated by its …
February 18, 2022
Censorship of Federal Environmental Agency Websites Under Trump: What …
Over the last four years, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) has documented and analyzed …
March 18, 2021
10 ways Biden should fix the EPA
Biden has nominated Michael Regan to lead the agency, which must be rebuilt and strengthened in …
December 18, 2020
Full Coverage
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