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Explore Our Alternative Tools for Contextualizing Hard-to-Access EPA Data

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Explore Our Alternative Tools for Contextualizing Hard-to-Access EPA Data

EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) team hosted ‘Building Civic Technologies for Environmental Data Justice,’ a five-part workshop series that explored the tools they’re building for contextualizing hard-to-access EPA data. The tools focus on analyzing cumulative impacts, mapping schools near hazardous air pollutants, and summarizing enforcement of and compliance with laws like the Clean Air Act … Read more

EDGI Releases Web Tool for Investigating Drinking Water Justice in New Jersey

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EDGI Releases Web Tool for Investigating Drinking Water Justice in New Jersey

Is it as safe to drink tap water in Paterson as it is in more affluent, whiter communities nearby, such as Wayne? EDGI’s new tool, available at sdwa-eew.streamlit.app, is designed for college students to answer questions such as this and explore the intersection of drinking water safety with social justice in New Jersey.

EDGI and the Right to Trust our Environmental Health

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EDGI and the Right to Trust our Environmental Health

I grew up in unincorporated Snohomish County, Washington—an area I often characterized, at the time, as the kind of place where people have guns and horses. As a kid, the woods behind my house felt like an endless adventure: a massive Pacific Northwest wetlands, where beavers would build ever-changing dams you might cross on foot (if you didn’t fall in), where stickerbushes grabbed at your clothes, and dripping thick underbrush would open up into spacious cedar groves that, even to a child, felt sacred.

EDGI Releases Report: 50 Years After the Clean Water Act, Toxic Chemicals it Regulates are Still Used in Fracking

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EDGI Releases Report: 50 Years After the Clean Water Act, Toxic Chemicals it Regulates are Still Used in Fracking

This October marks the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA). With the original goal of eliminating point-source pollution within ten years, the CWA articulated nationwide water quality standards to protect both public health and wildlife habitats. Fifty years later, and over seventy years after the onset of hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), federal loopholes and the structure of the CWA itself have left fracking largely unregulated.

EDGI Members Host Upcoming NASW Workshop: What’s in the Water?

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EDGI Members Host Upcoming NASW Workshop: What’s in the Water?

This month at the Science Writers 2022 Conference, EDGI members Kelsey Breseman and Eric Nost will host the virtual workshop ‘What’s in the Water? Stories in Federal Environmental Data’, demonstrating how science writers can utilize an open-source data science tool to discover stories and develop insights from the EPA’s records on Clean Water Act (CWA) pollution permits.

EDGI Releases Report: How Data Gaps and Disparities in EPA Data Undermine Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tools

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EDGI Releases Report: How Data Gaps and Disparities in EPA Data Undermine Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tools

Webmaps that are meant to evaluate and “screen” neighborhoods for environmental injustices have seen a lot of interest in both the United States and Canada lately. From informing where to distribute climate funding in the US as “Justice 40” to Canada’s Bill C-226, the pursuit of environmental equity has led to a strongly felt need for data and mapping tools that overlay environmental health with racial and income disparities.

Salmon (and Humans) Need the Clean Water Act

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Salmon (and Humans) Need the Clean Water Act

Image from Unsplash. By Kelsey Breseman The Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe is bringing a case against the City of Seattle over their treaty rights, specifically for mismanagement of the Skagit River watershed, which they say impede the rights of salmon to “exist, flourish, regenerate.” As a Tlingit who researches environmental governance, this story caught my attention. … Read more

PRESS RELEASE: EDGI Urges CEQ to Incorporate Federal Enforcement Data into Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool

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PRESS RELEASE: EDGI Urges CEQ to Incorporate Federal Enforcement Data into Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool

Image shows the beta version of the federal Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. EDGI Urges CEQ to Incorporate Federal Enforcement Data into Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool  In response to the call for public comments, EDGI calls on the Council on Environmental Quality to go further to address root causes of environmental racism. … Read more

PRESS RELEASE: EDGI Releases Report on Carbon Emissions by US Corporations

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PRESS RELEASE: EDGI Releases Report on Carbon Emissions by US Corporations

The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative’s analysis of the most recent EPA data (2020) shows the top ten companies in terms of direct emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and the top ten in terms of supplying fuels that produce GHGs when combusted.  The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative Releases Report on Carbon Emissions by US … Read more