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Working to build environmental data and governance systems that are more just, equitable, and effective. Newsletter: https://t.co/KVOSarHWGE @envirodgi.bsky.soc
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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. Learn more:
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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:
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“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 @ericnost
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“‘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.”
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“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.”
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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.
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“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 @gretchengehrke
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“More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.”
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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.
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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.
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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:
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"Unfortunately, throughout the four years of the Biden administration (which made great progress in a lot of areas like environmental justice) there wasn't any progress in our information policies. So the removal of public information is totally allowed."
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*CEJST, the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
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“Trump’s team is likely better prepared now to limit access to information, EDGI warns...But EDGI and its partners are more prepared now, too.”
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“[A] report by [EDGI] found that the first Trump administration changed and/or removed information on federal websites related to issues like water pollution and climate change approximately 1,400 times.”
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We don’t expect the Trump administration to abandon scientific principles and data wholesale but to weaponize them in service of special economic interests, following a playbook laid out in the 2018 Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science rule.
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