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An Online Interactive Tool for Exploring Water Justice with Undergraduate Students - Eric Nost, Marianne Sullivan, Kelsey Breseman, Lilian Milanés, Nicole Davi, 2025 It is vital that the next generation of public health practitioners understand the importance of ensuring affordable and equitable access to safe drinking water...

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/...

Grateful to Jessie Mahr, our amazing partner in PEDP, for leadership in preserving and making accessible the data we need to build better environmental futures. Wonderful coverage below!

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

New paper alert! A new article in @sthv.bsky.social reflects on how EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch program uses computational civic notebooks to intervene in environmental data regimes that otherwise sustain a harmful permission-to-pollute system.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

EPA Celebrates Another 100 Days with 100 More Pro-Environmental Actions | US EPA EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin shared 100 additional environmental actions EPA has taken in the last 100 days to recognize 200 Days of providing clean air, land, and water for all Americans under Presid...

Curious about the claims made in the latest "100 actions" announcement from EPA's press office (link ⬇️)? EDGI’s @alissa-a.bsky.social, a #PFAS scholar with @pfasproject.bsky.social, took a closer look at the claims around forever chemicals. Here’s what she found (a 🧵):
www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

Community-Led FOIA: Introduction to the Project and the State-by-State Guide – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative By: Gretchen Gehrke, Jessica Varner, Bianca LaPaz, and Amy Xu What is Community-Led FOIA? At EDGI, we work to make public information […]

💡 New tool alert! EDGI has created guides on how to FOIA in *all 50 states*. FOIA (the Freedom of Information Act) helps ensure the government operates in the interest of the people. Learn more about community-led FOIA & the state-by-state guides in our new blog: envirodatagov.org/community-le...

EDGI’s @gretchengehrke.bsky.social & @jessvarner.bsky.social are organizing a panel for the Dec #AGU25 meeting in New Orleans! They’re seeking abstracts on community-based cumulative impacts research, policy, or methodologies. Abstracts are due July 30. Apply & share: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

History of Risk Assessments of the Organophosphate Pesticide Chlorpyrifos at the US Environmental Protection Agency, 1980‒2024 | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 7 This article examines the history of risk assessments of the organophosphate pesticide chlorpyrifos at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), especially after a ban on household uses in 2000. F...

Check out the latest issue of @apha.org’s journal, AJPH, to find a new article by EDGI researchers, who offer a historical look at EPA’s risk assessment process for the pesticide Chlorpyrifos.

Access it here: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

Recently published in APHA's American Journal of Public Health ⬇️ ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

Systems Administrator - Environmental Data & Governance Initiative Job Opening: Systems Administrator - Environmental Data & Governance Initiative at Multiplier in Remote.

📣 We have extended the deadline for our SysAdmin hire to May 18. Please share widely with your networks: multiplier-careers.pinpointhq.com/postings/190...

History of Risk Assessments of the Organophosphate Pesticide Chlorpyrifos at the US Environmental Protection Agency, 1980‒2024 | AJPH | Vol. Issue This article examines the history of risk assessments of the organophosphate pesticide chlorpyrifos at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), especially after a ban on household uses in 2000. F...

👀 New paper alert! From EDGI’s interdisciplinary team of researchers: a historical look at the EPA’s risk assessment process for the pesticide Chlorpyrifos. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

Systems Administrator - Environmental Data & Governance Initiative Job Opening: Systems Administrator - Environmental Data & Governance Initiative at Multiplier in Remote.

🌱 EDGI is hiring for a Systems Administrator! Please share widely with your networks. Applications due May 6. multiplier-careers.pinpointhq.com/postings/190...

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If you judge by the number of stories, the number of authors involved, the tone, the duration of coverage ... you can't help but conclude that the NYT found the fact that Biden is old much more alarming than the fact that an unelected tech nazi is illegally taking over key government systems.

I don't know why Wired is doing the best reporting on Musk's bullshit (or why the big papers appear to be doing almost none), but we should reward good work where it happens. Subscribe to Wired!

The End of Term Archive team @eotarchive.org crawled millions of federal webpages! If you are worried about a page going down or changing information on it, you can check to see if it is saved in the Internet Archive's @waybackmachine.bsky.social. 1/2

Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after sending locals into a mad scramble – SJV Water Water managers were relieved Thursday evening after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision earlier in the day to dump massive

The carefully managed water systems in California's Central Valley saw a sudden deluge after the Army Corps of Engineers unexpectedly released reservoir water.

“In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this. I was given no explanation at all.”

Why EDGI is Archiving Public Environmental Data – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative Governments worldwide collect and distribute data relevant to environmental challenges. For instance, the United States (US) federal government collects satellite imagery, climatological and weather r...

EDGI has been downloading and archiving government environmental data since the election: envirodatagov.org/why-edgi-is-...

What are other groups doing this kind of work that you all know about?

Wanted:

A few days ago I saw stats about “for every dollar spent on an NSF grant, there’s ____ economic impact on communities” or something

I need that stat for an open letter for scientists and now can’t find it.

Also similar stats for EPA, NOAA, NIH grants etc would be useful here. 🧪

Trump wants to upend California water policy. State officials say it could do harm President Trump has issued a directive calling for 'putting people over fish' in California water policy. State officials say it could prove harmful for water supplies and fish.

One of Trump's first executive orders: “Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California.” If you want to understand what that means, read @ianjames.bsky.social for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/environment/...

3M knew firefighting foams containing PFAS were toxic, documents show Exclusive: Newly uncovered documents reveal chemicals giant was aware ‘environmentally neutral’ products did not biodegrade

3M knew firefighting foams containing PFAS were toxic, documents show
Exclusive: Newly uncovered documents reveal chemicals giant was aware ‘environmentally neutral’ products did not biodegrade

Story five, day two of our PFAS series in the Guardian.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AI is guzzling gas Big Tech is paying for gas plants and pipelines to directly power data centers, threatening global climate goals.

To fuel AI, Big Tech is now partnering with Big Oil and pipeline companies to supply fossil fuels directly to their data centers.

“There is just no possible way to achieve net zero" under this type of gas expansion

Crazy stuff today from @ariellesamuel.bsky.social:

heated.world/p/ai-is-guzz...

The World Bank is back to funding dams, including what will be the world’s tallest (in Tajikistan) & largest (in DRC).

All despite the known massive socio-ecological impacts, the fact that climate change is undermining hydropower production & dam safety, & the cheaper cost of solar and wind.

The coolest project! (That just keeps getting more and more relevant).

Breathe easy | Rewiring America Household electrification as a public health intervention to improve outdoor air quality.

New research shows that electrifying US appliances would dramatically improve *outdoor* air quality, to the tune of about $40 billion in health benefits per year. www.rewiringamerica.org/research/hom...

A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights - Inside Climate News Voters in the city of Everett chose to grant the Snohomish River watershed rights to exist, regenerate and flourish as part of a November ballot initiative.

Fascinating, hopeful case: legally enforceable rights just granted to the Snohomish River watershed in Everett City, Washington State.

“Voters in Everett…enshrined the watershed’s rights to exist, regenerate and flourish.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...

The team of researchers from the University of California at Riverside and the California Institute of Technology conducted what they say may be the first study of its kind assessing AI's impacts on air pollution. The paper, "The Unpaid Toll: Quantifying the Public Health impact of AI," which will be released later today, finds that the generation of electricity for data centers hosting artificial intelligence applications could pollute the air so much that by 2030 an additional 1,300 people may die prematurely each year as a result. That would be a 36% increase over the current annual asthma-related deaths in the country. The researchers — led by Shaolei Ren of UC Riverside and CalTech's Adam Wierman — examined the release of nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less, which can penetrate deep into the lungs, by power plants and diesel generators associated with AI facilities.

"There is something like this, air pollution, which is affecting people right now," Ren said in an interview. "We aren't paying attention to it at all." The researchers estimate that the generation of electricity for AI data centers could trigger roughly 600,000 asthma symptom cases a year by 2030. Last year, the researchers estimate, the generative AI boom led to a public health burden of $5.6 billion. By 2030, they calculated, AI's electricity-related public health costs will top $20 billion. That's more than double the public-health costs of coal-based US steelmaking, they write, and will rival the emissions produced by California's 35 million cars.

New paper on the air pollution impacts of AI data centres ->

"...by 2030 an additional 1,300 people may die prematurely each year as a result.

That would be a 36% increase over the current annual asthma-related deaths in the country"

www.businessinsider.com/ai-20-billio...

Colorado River states fear a long legal battle as talks falter over shortage rules States agree that climate change is making the Colorado River less reliable, but at a water conference, they did not meet to talk.

California's lead Colorado River negotiator accuses Upper Basin states of seeking to build "pipelines to more golf courses." Wyoming's lead negotiator calls those kinds of claims "bullshit." Things are not going well in Las Vegas: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l... via @brandonloomis.bsky.social