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
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
Insiders warn how dismantling federal agencies could put science at ri…
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency …
November 3, 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 …
2025-02-14
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 …
2025-01-08
SCOTUS Scrutiny and the Future of Public Commenting
A spate of US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) rulings decided this summer will have dramatic and damaging …
2024-09-14
Introducing the Public Comments Initiative
Public comments and their impact on scientific integrity in federal rulemaking …
2024-08-27
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 …
2022-03-17
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 …
2022-02-18
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 …
2021-03-18
10 ways Biden should fix the EPA
Biden has nominated Michael Regan to lead the agency, which must be rebuilt and strengthened in …
2020-12-18
Full Coverage
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