Pollution laws like the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act only work if they’re being enforced. In 2025, EPA investigations of and cases against polluters reached historic lows. A new EDGI report analyzes the agency’s record so far under this Trump administration. envirodatagov.org/publication/...
02.02.2026 18:44 — 👍 12 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
Also also CBC: oh, but we won't share _exactly_ what DHS said ("individual wanted to *massacre* law enforcement"), we wouldn't want to make them look stupid news.wttw.com/2026/01/25/w...
Shame on you!
CBC: experts say ICE relies on white nationalist rhetoric www.cbc.ca/news/ice-rec...
Also CBC: let us go ahead and repeat DHS statements word for word with no contextualization www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
Big Tech is projected to invest $500 billion this year on AI infrastructure. What could go wrong? @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social @ericnost.bsky.social centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/ins...
21.01.2026 16:34 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Featuring EDGI’s own @gretchengehrke.bsky.social alongside some of our amazing partners in environmental data preservation:
time.com/7344773/wome...
Ready to push against surveillance-driven corporations profiting on stolen land, stolen resources and YOUR STOLEN DATA? 👀❌💸
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🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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NEW: After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
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The newly formed Environmental Justice Data & Mapping Society is hiring a coordinator: drive.google.com/file/d/1Mot9...
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What if feeding babies was a "nation-building" project instead of fossil fuel infrastructure? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Trump is authorizing exemptions to Clean Air Act rules limiting emissions of hazardous chemicals.
A new report by EDGI shows exemption-eligible facilities are among the riskiest polluters, disproportionately impacting low-income & communities of color. envirodatagov.org/publication/...
It's also true that Scott and Schrute can be vulnerable and likable, which raises the interesting question of, "do we live in Trump's and Musk's world *because* The Office made it more possible for some to sympathize with such characters?
07.11.2025 17:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not to mention the familiarity of leaders who panic over imagined harms (and cry "terrorist" at the mere sight of a Brown man - "oh my god it's happening" - or "No god no" at the prospect of oversight)
07.11.2025 17:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sure, no one's thinking about this when they share The Office memes, but maybe these have traction b/c their scenes resonate at a deeper level - recognition of annoyance at "superiors" who know nothing but claim otherwise (“You and I both see how dumb this is, right?”)
07.11.2025 17:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's a script we know; we too have a racist sex pest bullshitting debt-riddled mediocre businessman leader with an inflated sense of intelligence/importance, a compulsive need to be liked, disdain for accountability, terrible policies, and a *mostly* loyal brusque Nazi-tied asst ("fascist nerd")
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The camera work and mockumentary style are important factors, but there's also a reason why this exists: trumporscott.com
The Office is uncanny. I don't know how you can watch or think about it in the Year of Our Lord 2025 and not observe that its main characters are our main characters.
Hmm, if "we are living in Michael Scott's world now" maybe it's also because we are living in Trump's and Musk's world www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Farhana Sultana (2025) entitled: 'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' with an orange banner at the top. Climate change intensifies existing inequities, disproportionately impacting marginalised populations, particularly in the Global South and Indigenous communities. This is maintained through inequitable global climate governance, policies and solutions. The paper argues that climate coloniality, the complex entanglements of colonial legacies with contemporary climate and ecological changes, operates through systemic knowledge-based marginalisation or epistemic injustice, serving as a key mechanism in the uneven production and distribution of climate harms. Beyond the more commonly discussed material dimensions of loss and damage, epistemic injustices arise from silencing critical voices and devaluing knowledge systems. The paper extends the scope of loss and damage debates by drawing attention to epistemic losses: the erasure of worldviews, ontologies and practices that are vital for just and sustainable climate futures. It critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in (re)producing epistemic injustices, while simultaneously revealing counter-narratives of refusal, resurgence and relationality. By engaging Indigenous and Global South scholarship, the paper underscores the need to decolonise knowledge systems that reproduce dominant climate narratives and heed the epistemological alternatives offered by land- and kinship-based knowledge systems. Advancing climate justice depends on confronting epistemic injustice as both a form of loss and a condition of possibility: centring Global South and Indigenous perspectives is essential for cultivating pluriversal, decolonial and just climate frameworks and futures.
New in Geo:
'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana
This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
We’re excited to share the first story in our Made Possible series, showing how 2,212 studies relied on federal environmental justice tools like EJScreen and what’s at stake when those tools disappear.
Read today: screening-tools.com/blog/pedp-en...
Many AI data centers are state & federally permitted, theoretically held to pollution standards so as not to overburden communities. The data tell a different story: Those living near these centers face higher air pollution, especially communities of color. envirodatagov.org/blogs/commun...
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unboxing Public Data Cultures book
Copies of the book on a train in Totoro bag.
Front and back cover of Public Data Cultures with quotes and book blurb.
Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
I am recruiting Master’s and/or PhD students to start in Fall 2026 on a couple of funded projects: ericnost.github.io#recruitment
21.10.2025 18:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our short paper on the development and use of a tool for teaching about drinking water justice in New Jersey was just published open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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3. bullshit - both gain from "flooding the zone" without care (theconversation.com/chatgpt-kill...; theconversation.com/why-donald-t...) (3/3)
29.09.2025 15:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2. racism - attacks on EJ and DEI are justified in the name of "colorblind merit" (www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...) while AI tools are developed and sold as race-neutral (www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...). Both reproduce racist outcomes. (2/3)
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Three ways Trump and Big Tech's interests intersect:
1. fossil fuels - natural gas gets a huge new market and data centers get cheapened energy (www.iea.org/reports/ener...) (1/3)
How does stakeholder participation in natural resource management change when conservation rules are grounded in near real-time data? Recent technological advances have increased the feasibility of the ‘dynamic management’ of natural resources, which promises to align the spatiotemporal scales of management with ecological variability and resource use. Drawing on Kelty's (2020) concept of ‘contributory autonomy’, this article offers a critical comparison of how participation is conceived of in the more established context of static conservation areas and planning versus the emergent field of dynamic management. A systematic review of the dynamic ocean management literature reveals a varied, but shallow engagement with the topic of stakeholder participation in that context. Whereas static management regimes are governed by relatively intuitive and contestable maps, dynamic management is governed by models and data flows. Overall, the decision-making stakeholder of participatory mapping processes under static management is displaced by the stakeholder conceived as an ‘end-user’ of a dynamic management product and consultant in its design. Yet, these shifts also open up potential points of contestation, which may pattern the future theory and practice of participation in dynamic management: counterdata, countermodelling and data chokepoints. Beyond the empirical focus on oceans, this article contributes to broader conversations about the political stakes of environmental data, and algorithmic and artificial intelligence-driven natural resource conservation by considering how possibilities for participation are foreclosed, enabled and reconstituted by new spatiotemporal and technological conditions.
New article out in Geo: Geography and Environment with an interdisciplinary dream team of coauthors: “From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources.”
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... (open access)
tsk tsk, this should've been a Q survey :)
seriously, it'd be interesting to know more about the "probably not" / "probably yes" folks. I would guess you have the "Never AI" students, but also the "I don't like AI, but I sometimes use it to get by in the broken system" students, et al.
