Public Environmental Data Partners

The image's background is a colorful data visualization map. In the foreground reads the text "A Year of Resistance and Resilience for Climate and Environmental Data and Tools," and below it in smaller letters reads "Public Environmental Data Partners" and the URL "screening-tools.com." The Public Environmental Data Partners Logo is in the bottom right corner.

The final blog in our series highlights PEDP’s success stories over this past year, from preserving data and tools, to organizing against policy changes, to expanding our outreach toward a more participatory and resilient future for our data.

Read the blog here: screening-tools.com/blog/a-year-...

Data can seem abstract, and when it works the way it's meant to, the people and infrastructure behind it are often invisible. The penultimate blog of our series details our work humanizing and telling the stories behind the data we preserve.

Read the blog here: screening-tools.com/blog/stories...

Curious about what it actually looks like to engage in federal data preservation work? The third blog in our five-part series dives into our processes for identifying, prioritizing, preserving, and improving federal data and tools.

Read the full blog here: screening-tools.com/blog/ready-s...

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The second blog in our “Marking One Year” series details our experience building a coalition during a crisis, and some of the lessons we’ve learned along the way.

Read the full blog here: screening-tools.com/blog/how-we-...

This week and next, we are publishing a five-part blog series to highlight what we’ve seen and how we’ve responded to the myriad attacks on our data. The first blog in the series, “A Year of Threats to Our Public Information,” is now live on our website: screening-tools.com/blog/a-year-...

Help us build better environmental justice data tools! Join our webinar introducing our Environmental Justice Tools Engagement Project.

When: Monday, February 2, 2026 | 3:00-4:00pm ET
Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Read more about the project: screening-tools.com/blog/environ...

Help us preserve at-risk data at our next hybrid datathon! February 11, 2-5pm ET.

Register here to attend online or in-person: libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/161867...

We hope to see you there!

Beyond Preservation: Stewarding America’s Critical HIFLD Infrastructure Data — Data + Screening Tools In late 2025, HIFLD Open (Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data) , a national collection of datasets tracking the location, risk, and vulnerability of critical infrastructure across the Unite...

PEDP and Fulton Ring are excited to announce a new initiative to restore and steward the HIFLD Open data portal. By prioritizing continuous improvement of the data, this foundational resource will remain living, legible, and useful to the public.

Read more: screening-tools.com/blog/beyond-...

Regional Climate Center Maintainer & Admin Feedback Please share your experience maintaining or supporting RCC tools, datasets, and infrastructure. Your input helps identify operational risks, dependencies, and resourcing needs to support reliability a...

@noaa.gov 's Regional Climate Center (RCC) tools and datasets are affected by funding cuts, staffing gaps, and deferred maintenance.

We’re collecting anonymous input from RCC administrators and maintainers to identify where tools are fragile, under-resourced, or at risk.

forms.gle/PHkxd9AfVVSc...

🌍 This Giving Tuesday: Environmental data is vanishing. We're saving it.

Your donation helps us: → Rebuild tools when they're removed → Keep servers running → Make data accessible to all!

Give today: donorbox.org/open-environ...

Learn more: screening-tools.com

#GivingTuesday #ClimateData

Federal data and tools are all around us, influencing our lives in ways we often overlook. Our new data story, Protect the Data that Nourishes Us, highlights the data and tools that inform every stage of an apple's life cycle from seed to supermarket.

screening-tools.com/blog/protect...

This World Volunteer Day, join PEDP in preserving at-risk data at our next virtual datathon! All are welcome, no previous experience necessary. We would love to see new and familiar faces there! Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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...

Thrilled to partner with @essentialdata.us and
@scientistsorg.bsky.social this spooky season!

Dearly Departed Datasets poster

This Halloween season, we're remembering our Dearly Departed Datasets — the federal datasets that have met an untimely end. Help us memorialize what was lost and why they matter.

Memorialize them here by 10/29: forms.gle/nGFj5Teqg6d7...

Results will be shared on Halloween!

Inside The Effort To Save Hundreds Of Environmental Datasets Purged Under Trump Jessie Mahr led a team that restored critical climate data removed from public access under the Trump administration. Now, she’s pioneering a wider effort to fill data gaps in federal policy.

Our very own Jessica Mahr, Director of Technology at Environmental Policy Innovation Center, was recognized as a Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leader for her work with PEDP to preserve federal environmental data. Read more about her work here!

www.forbes.com/sites/marlow...

Cutting reporting may save some compliance costs in the short term, but the long-term costs of climate inaction are far greater. If we don’t measure emissions, we can’t manage them.

•Global credibility: The U.S. must report emissions to meet climate commitments and maintain trust on the world stage.

•Risk management: Businesses and governments use emissions data to anticipate climate risks and protect people, health, and infrastructure.

Reporting ensures:

•Transparency & accountability: Communities and investors can see who is emitting and whether progress is real.

•Smart policy: Leaders need reliable data to design effective, targeted climate solutions.

Accurate emissions data is the foundation of any effective climate policy. Without it, we’re flying blind.

EPA says this will “save up to $2.4B” over 10 years. What it really does is take away the basic facts we need to hold polluters accountable and keep our air clean.

US EPA proposes end to mandatory greenhouse gas reporting The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Friday a rule to end a mandatory program requiring 8,000 facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions - an effort the agency said was burdensome to business, but which leaves the public without transparency around the environmental impact of those sources.

On Friday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed ending the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP)—the dataset that has given the public, communities, and investors a window into emissions from ~8,000 U.S. facilities since 2010.

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

"Trump 2.0 has lived up to expectations, Nost says, by endangering various kinds of data. But Nost says the situation at NOAA represents the first major threat to core data sets that are crucial for all kinds of environmental research."

Major European institutes join race to save US science data As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial climate and other data sets could disappear.

PEDP's @ericnost.bsky.social spoke to @nature.com about data preservation efforts and the race to save critical @noaa.gov data:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Join us for a Datathon on March 21st! This datathon will have two tracks: a datathon component to download data, and a hackathon component that will target data that requires code or scripting to obtain. All experience levels welcome! This is your chance to: - Preserve access to critical datasets - Contribute by uploading community-identified data - Connect with fellow open data enthusiasts We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the Datathon!

Hosting a @publicenvirodata.bsky.social datathon tomorrow from 3–5 on zoom to preserve critical federal environmental data!

Sign up here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#climate #environment #opendata #fedcuts

New Environmental Justice Grants Map Highlights Impacts of EPA Fund Cancellations – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2025 CONTACT: EDGI’s experts are available to answer media questions. For media inquiries, please email Shannan Lenke […]

1/ Earlier this month, the Trump EPA announced it would cancel 100s of grants already authorized by congress. EDGI & @publicenvirodata.bsky.social have released a map highlighting the impacts of cancellations on #EnvironmentalJustice communities. Learn more here: envirodatagov.org/new-environm...

For less than the cost of a single stealth bomber, these hundreds of projects would reach thousands of communities and improve the lives of countless Americans.

#environmentaljustice #EJ #fedcuts #EPA #IRA #grants

Following rigorous competition and vetting, groups that received grants have already begun to implement projects: hiring staff, contracting with local businesses, and beginning to deliver results to improve health and environmental benefits for America. The status of these grants is now uncertain.

We published a map to help Americans understand the effects of these proposed cuts—for journalists to tell stories about these programs, for economists to evaluate their impacts, and for residents of these communities as well.

edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io/EJ-Grants/

This map displays environmental justice (EJ) grants the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made through the Inflation Reduction Act since 2024. The EPA Administrator previously announced his intention to cancel many of the agency's grants and contracts and their status is quickly changing: some recipients have lost access to funds, received notices of termination, or find themselves uncertain of their status. This map is not comprehensive and will be updated periodically as additional information becomes available, but what is displayed here is a large number of the potentially affected grants.

EPA’s environment justice grants under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) were developed according to high standards and in strict adherence with federal laws, policies, and regulations. The programs were designed to be transparent, accountable, and impactful. They're being targeted by EPA and DOGE.