Check out our recent coverage highlights, as well as EDGI member op-eds. Full coverage of EDGI is documented below.
Recent Highlights
The Women Saving America’s Climate Data
A couple weeks after Donald Trump was elected president for the second time, a group of …
January 16, 2026
Does Erasing Information Make It Invalid?
Multiple sources allege that the Trump administration has quietly rewritten some of its web pages to …
January 13, 2026
Data Center Project Cancellations Quadrupled in 2025 as Locals Fight B…
At least 25 data center projects around the country were canceled last year due to opposition …
January 13, 2026
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black…
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them …
January 6, 2026
Government’s historic role as trusted information source is under thre…
The U.S. government for decades has been the world’s leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers …
December 20, 2025
The Public Health Heroes of 2025
The Trump administration wants to destroy our health infrastructure. These warriors aren’t letting that happen without …
December 19, 2025
The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last we…
The Trump administration purged 80 pages of facts about climate change — including that it’s caused …
December 11, 2025
The EPA is wiping mention of human-caused climate change from its webs…
Some pages have been tweaked to emphasize “natural forces”; others have been deleted entirely …
December 9, 2025
Find Environmental Justice Stories With Grants Data
Environmental justice funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may be over for now, but environmental …
November 5, 2025
Op-Eds
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
Pennsylvania water is not what it used to be | Opinion
Just down the hill from my house is the Conodoguinet, a slow, wide creek that is …
October 23, 2020
Trump’s Most Ambitious Environmental Rollback Yet
For all of the mayhem and missteps of the Donald Trump administration, the president has been …
January 21, 2020
EDGI: EPA didn’t provide enough information for true public comment on…
On February 14th, the EPA and Engineers Corps published a new rule changing the definition of …
April 24, 2019
Full Coverage
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