Check out our recent coverage highlights, as well as EDGI member op-eds. Full coverage of EDGI is documented below.
Recent Highlights
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
The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE? …
March 15, 2025
The Data Heroes Racing To Save Environmental Data From The Trump Purge
In a quiet but urgent race against time, groups of researchers, archivists, and technologists are working …
March 6, 2025
Donald Trump wants to delete ‘climate’ from federal websites — here’s …
The Trump administration has been hacking away at federal government websites, taking down information about climate …
March 4, 2025
Climate Info Purge Case to Test Bounds of Government Records Law
A recent Freedom of Information Act suit over the purge of climate information from US Department …
February 28, 2025
Extended Interview: Mark Graham on Internet Archive’s Work Preserving …
Extended interview with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. He is …
February 28, 2025
Trump is gutting environmental data, obscuring climate and pollution r…
Deleting websites and ignoring scientific data threatens to undo clean air and water regulations …
February 27, 2025
The ‘Wayback Machine’ is preserving the websites Trump’s White House t…
Online archives like the Wayback Machine offer a way to access deleted or altered web pages …
February 18, 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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