Check out our recent coverage highlights, as well as EDGI member op-eds. Full coverage of EDGI is documented below.
Recent Highlights
‘Things were going dark left and right’: the race to save US governmen…
That’s how Kellam feels too. “It’s very much a social movement,” she said, adding that there …
May 7, 2026
The Quiet Way Trump Has Made Life Easier for Polluters
According to the report, which was released by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, or EDGI, …
March 9, 2026
Why it matters that the government is messing with health databases
Climate.gov, a widely used site maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, stopped publishing new …
March 5, 2026
The Fight for the Heart of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
One year after the Trump administration threw the EPA into chaos, former employees continue to push …
February 26, 2026
EPA Enforcement Falls to Record Low Under Trump 2.0
Data suggests that EPA and the Department of Justice have all but abandoned pursuing complex, high-impact …
February 25, 2026
Trump’s EPA Rollbacks Will Reverberate for ‘Decades’
“If people don’t know where pollution is occurring, they can’t effectively organize to protect themselves. ‘Removing …
February 12, 2026
Fears of EPA Enforcement Dip Spurs Groups to Act as Legal Hounds
Environmental groups say they’re feeling pressure to file more lawsuits against corporate polluters amid concerns the …
February 10, 2026
What one year of Trump’s climate censorship reveals
President Donald Trump has gone beyond policy overhauls to fundamentally alter the way the government talks …
January 23, 2026
Preserving Community Science in the Face of Attacks
Right before the holidays, Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester and Tammy Duckworth re-introduced the Public Health Air …
January 20, 2026
Op-Eds
Despite What This EPA Says, Enforcement under Trump Has Dropped
Each year, the EPA releases a report on its environmental enforcement for the previous fiscal year; …
March 31, 2026
The Trump administration is disappearing climate change data
On Feb. 12, the Trump administration repealed the landmark 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, flouting decades …
February 27, 2026
Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end…
As Congress faces a Sept. 30, 2025, deadline to fund the federal government, Environmental Protection Agency …
September 29, 2025
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
Full Coverage
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