website monitoring Archives – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

June 5, 2025June 5, 2025Blog, Highlights From the Change Log

EPA Removes Information About its HBCU and Minority Serving Institutions Advisory Council

In April 2025, the EPA removed information about its Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions (HBCU-MSI) Advisory Council. The EPA deleted the webpage dedicated to this advisory council along with its entry from the landing page for all Federal Advisory Committees at EPA. The EPA’s Office of Public Engagement and Environmental Education landing page deleted all information about working with HBCU-MSIs, including a paragraph and multiple links describing EPA’s activities with HBCU-MSIs and the HBCU-MSI Advisory Council. The pages that had been linked are no longer functional; all now return errors saying, “Sorry, but this web page does not exist.”

May 19, 2025June 4, 2025Blog, Highlights From the Change Log

NOAA removes “Teaching Climate” resources from Climate.gov

Highlights from the Change Log: NOAA removes “Teaching Climate” resources from Climate.gov Welcome! This post is part of the EDGI Website Monitoring […]

April 29, 2025April 29, 2025Blog

How Information Was Suppressed in Trump’s First 100 Days (and How It Compares to Last Time)

In the first 100 days of Trump’s second term in office, a barrage of removals disappeared environmental data and information across agency […]

February 12, 2025March 7, 2025Blog, Highlights From the Change Log

EPA Removes EJScreen from Its Website

On February 5th, EPA removed several web pages about the environmental justice mapping and screening tool, EJScreen, as well as the tool itself. These pages, which now cannot be accessed or simply say, “Sorry, but this web page does not exist,” include:

February 5, 2025February 13, 2025Blog, Highlights From the Change Log

FEMA Renames “Climate Resilience” Website “Future Conditions”

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has renamed its “Climate Resilience” website to “Future Conditions,” and has removed much of the climate-specific language from the site’s landing page. For example, FEMA replaced the introductory sentence from “Climate change is the defining crisis of our time” to “Disaster incidents are rising due to increased human vulnerability, exposure and a changing climate.”

January 31, 2025January 31, 2025Blog

Trump Removes Access to CEJST, Our New Coalition Restores It

Less than three days after CEJST was taken offline, EDGI and fellow members of Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) stood up an unofficial but functional copy, restoring public access.

Screenshot showing two versions of the "What Kind of People Work at EPA" webpage. Several links to affinity groups have been removed.

January 27, 2025February 13, 2025Blog, Highlights From the Change Log

Trump Targets DEI Pages at the EPA

In the first couple of days of the second Trump administration, the EPA removed several web pages related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts at the EPA.

January 13, 2025January 14, 2025Blog, New

PRESS RELEASE: EDGI Works to Safeguard Federal Environmental Data and Information

In anticipation of a second and likely more significant assault on federal environmental information by the Trump administration, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) is ramping up its website monitoring work, coordinating a broad multi-organizational data preservation effort, and expanding its civic data science tools for accessing federal environmental data. EDGI is also supporting the End of Term Archive as it works to build the largest archive of federal web-based data and information ever created.

July 22, 2022July 22, 2022Blog

EDGI’s Response to the EPA’s Announcement it Will Retain its Online Archive

Tuesday July 19, 2022, after recently announcing the planned sunsetting of portions of its online archive, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency updated their Web Archive website with an announcement that the archive in its entirety will remain online until at least July 2023. The EPA stated that they extended the timeline “to assess the use of archive content and to continue to analyze, inventory, and transition key content to our main website.” This comes after EDGI and other environmental groups sent an open letter to the agency, urging them to keep this critical public resource online.

January 20, 2022August 28, 2024Blog

EDGI’s Website Monitoring Team Releases Report on Federal Web Governance in Biden’s First Year

January 20, 2022 – Today, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI)’s Website Monitoring Team releases Work in Progress: Governance of Digital […]