Environmental Data & Governance Initiative

10/02/2025

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10/02/2025

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has renamed its "Climate Resilience" website "Future Conditions" and removed much of the climate-specific language from its landing page.

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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 definin...

10/02/2025

Don’t worry; we and our collaborators at Public Environmental Data Partners have stood up a copy of EJScreen, the environmental justice mapping and screening tool taken down by Trump's EPA last week.

You can access it here: https://screening-tools.com/

05/02/2025

“One of the things that’s worrisome is when you start to take down resources like this, you start to construct a knowledge sphere that doesn’t acknowledge that environmental or climate injustices exist”. - EDGI's Eric Nost

Researchers and activists are archiving websites and data because “policymakers and the public need good information to make the best policy."

05/02/2025

“‘It’s hard to tell at this early stage if this will be similar to Donald Trump’s first term, but from what everything we’ve seen so far we should expect a massive campaign for information suppression again,’ said Gretchen Gehrke, co-founder of EDGI.”

Trump administration pulling references online ‘won’t make crisis’ stop affecting Americans’ lives, say experts

04/02/2025

“Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), which seeks to preserve federal data, has noted the White House’s council on environmental quality has taken down a sustainability plan aimed at cutting pollution from federal activities.”

Trump administration pulling references online ‘won’t make crisis’ stop affecting Americans’ lives, say experts

03/02/2025

EDGI and our collaborators at Public Environmental Data Partners are ensuring federal data is backed up, including the CDC's Social Vulnerability Index and Environmental Justice Index.

Researchers have been archiving government websites for months.

02/02/2025

“The fact that we need to protect against widespread data information suppression is really telling of the kind of moment we’re in. A hallmark of democracy is free and open information for an informed republic.” - EDGI’s Gretchen Gehrke

The removal of web tools that scientists and policymakers use to study global warming is a blow to the country’s physical and economic well-being.

31/01/2025

“More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from http://data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.”

https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/

More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.

31/01/2025

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.

Last week the Trump administration removed access to the Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST). The public web tool allowed users to see on a map which places in the US face marginalization and disproportionate climate and pollution burdens.

30/01/2025

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.

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.

24/01/2025

This week the Trump administration took offline the climate and economic justice mapping tool CEJST.

We, as part of the Public Environmental Data Project, have recreated it.

Here’s our unofficial but functional copy:

This screening tool identifies disadvantaged communities that are underserved &overburdened by pollution. It provides socioeconomic, environmental, health and climate info to inform decisions.