Advancing Public Participation and Community Engagement with the Federal Government
EDGI submitted a public comment in response to the White House Office of Management and Budget’s Request for Information, “Methods and Leading […]
Tag: website-monitoring
EPA Indicates Bold Support for Scientific Integrity on Its Website
The “EPA Actions to Address PFAS” webpage was changed to reflect EPA career scientists’ conclusions about the latest toxicity assessment for PFBS […]
Climate Silence and the Trump Administration’s Censorship of Federal Environmental Agency Websites
A new paper by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) summarizes how the Trump administration took unprecedented steps to censor climate change-related information—including by limiting access to websites about its causes and actions that mitigate it, as well as by changing the language used to refer to it.
Since Biden’s Inauguration, Environmental Enforcement Has New Place of Prominence on the EPA’s Homepage
Beginning January 25th, 2021, EPA’s top webpage epa.gov includes a clickable black and yellow image to report environmental violations.
EDGI Releases Dataset of Federal Environmental Website Changes Under Trump
February 10, 2021 — Today, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) publishes searchable records of approximately 1,500 changes to federal agency environmental webpages under the Trump administration. For four years, EDGI’s website monitoring team has identified and catalogued significant changes to federal websites using their open source monitoring software. EDGI’s Federal Environmental Web Tracker makes records of significant changes publicly available.
How EDGI’s Website Monitoring Team Uses an Open Source Tool to Identify Website Changes—and How You Can, Too
By Alejandro Paz and Gretchen Gehrke Website monitoring is critical for raising public awareness about federal management of public information. In 2017, […]
Why a Small Change to an EPA Webpage on Drinking Water Chemical Advisories Matters
This week’s change occurred between May and July 2018 and is about a sentence that was added to an EPA webpage about drinking water health advisories for PFOA and PFOS chemicals.
Making a public dataset: reviewing and reclassifying changes to federal environmental webpages
Blog written by Alejandro Paz Lead image shows the HTML source code comparison for two versions of the same page, on which […]
Change of the Week: Stripping information and stripping protections for migratory birds
Welcome! This post is part of the EDGI Website Monitoring Team’s “Change of the Week” blog series. The purpose of this series […]