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
In this post, we introduce EEW’s new open-source Jupyter Notebook for analyzing greenhouse gasses (GHGs) by the entities that either supply or emit them. This tool contributes to a reframing of accountability for climate change in terms of fossil fuel capitalism.
EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch’s catalog of open federal environmental datasets. View the page here. By Kelsey Breseman, Megan Raisle, Eric Nost, Sara Wylie We are excited to announce a new catalog of open federal datasets now available through EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) website. EEW works with members of the public to analyze and present … Read more
EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch’s new landing page for their open source environmental data science tools. View the page here. By Kelsey Breseman, Eric Nost, Andre Stackhouse, Steve Hansen, Sara Wylie EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) project centers on co-research with the public, creating conversations that bring the context of local knowledge to the data that … Read more
On Wednesday, October 27 at 1PM Eastern/4PM Pacific, the Environmental Data Governance Initiative’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) will hold an event as part of Hacktoberfest, a month-long series of events by and for the open source community. EEW’s event will include a brief demonstration of one of EEW’s open source Jupyter Notebook followed by time to explore and hack on the project.
By Eric Nost, Megan Raisle, Steve Hansen, Kelsey Breseman, Lourdes Vera, Sara Wylie, and EDGI In Brief Why We Created a Watershed Notebook Who’s responsible for this mess? As the intertwined climate-public health crisis grows, more and more people are confronting the harms wrought by fossil fuels and toxics industries in their neighborhoods. As hurricanes … Read more
By Leslie Alanis Using funding from Code for Science & Society (CS&S), EDGI has developed and implemented standards for event accessibility. Specifically, our Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) team has developed tools aimed at making our event—including the tools, language, and data we use at events—as accessible to the public as possible. At EEW events held … Read more
By Kelsey Breseman Vital data about federal environmental enforcement actions against facilities that pollute the soil, air, and water is currently available but largely inaccessible in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database. EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch project (EEW) helps environmental advocacy groups learn about federal environmental governance in … Read more
El mes pasado, el 13 de mayo, el Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) de EDGI organizó un evento en línea acerca de los obstáculos que enfrentan las comunidades latinas con la accesibilidad a la información ambiental.
On May 13, EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) hosted an online event about the obstacles Latinx Communities face with accessibility to environmental information.