Eric Nost
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Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph, member
@envirodgi.bsky.social
What if feeding babies was a "nation-building" project instead of fossil fuel infrastructure?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'Something is terribly wrong': Baby formula among most stolen food items as costs spiral, researcher says | CBC News
The price of baby formula in Canada has risen roughly 84 per cent since 2017, according to Statistics Canada, driving some parents to turn to strangers on social media for help. One researcher says fo...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/baby-formula-cost-national-9.6978290
15 days ago
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Research for the Front Lines
17 days ago
Are you concerned about the climate crisis and rising social injustice? In the spirit of the giving season, make your tax-deductible donation to Research for the Front Lines to support communities and movements across Canada who are leading the fight for a just […]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
17 days ago
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/...
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Even More Permission to Pollute? Impacts of Presidential Exemptions to Clean Air Act Provisions – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
According to the report Even More Permission to Pollute? Impacts of Presidential Exemptions to Clean Air Act Provisions, the EPA is authorizing […]
https://envirodatagov.org/publication/even-more-permission-to-pollute-impacts-of-presidential-exemptions-to-clean-air-act-provisions/
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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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How ‘The Office’ Memes Became the Language of the Internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/arts/television/the-office-memes-internet.html
22 days ago
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Geo: Geography and Environment
29 days ago
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...
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Public Environmental Data Partners
about 1 month ago
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...
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
about 1 month ago
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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Communities Close to EPA-Regulated Data Centers Face Heightened Air Pollution – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
By Lelia Marie Hampton and Eric Nost Key Points Data centers are booming right now due to climbing demand for generative AI, […]
https://envirodatagov.org/blogs/communities-close-to-epa-regulated-data-centers-face-heightened-air-pollution/
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jonathan w. y. gray
about 1 month ago
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! 🦔🌌💜
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I am recruiting Master’s and/or PhD students to start in Fall 2026 on a couple of funded projects:
ericnost.github.io#recruitment
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Welcome!
Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, and Geomatics University of Guelph
https://ericnost.github.io/#recruitment
about 1 month ago
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
about 2 months ago
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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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...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23733799251370365
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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...
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https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/energy-supply-for-ai
2 months ago
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Caleb Scoville
2 months ago
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)
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
3 months ago
In a new report, EDGI shows the costs of terminating EPA’s environmental justice grants. Economically, cutting these grants removes over $6 billion in benefits, including 65,000 jobs. Read to learn more:
envirodatagov.org/publication/...
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The Cost of Cuts to EPA’s Environmental Justice Grants – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
The Cost of Cuts to EPA’s Environmental Justice Grants highlights the benefits of environmental justice grants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) […]
https://envirodatagov.org/publication/the-cost-of-cuts-to-epas-environmental-justice-grants/
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Alejandro Alvarado Rojas
3 months ago
So excited to see this article out! Thank you for the opportunity contribute EEW and EDGI!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
4 months ago
In a new report, EDGI documents the second Trump administration’s control of federal environmental information in its first 6 months. We found that environmental justice & climate change information have been broadly rewritten & deleted. Learn more:
envirodatagov.org/publication/...
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Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
The report Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration examines management of federal websites related to environmental regulation in the first six months o...
https://envirodatagov.org/publication/climate-of-suppression-environmental-information-under-the-second-trump-administration/
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Ethemblage is an online game developed by
@leahgovia.bsky.social
leahgovia.itch.io/ethemblage
It's a story in which players interact with different scenarios where technologies such as acoustic monitors, drones, and GPS collars are applied by conservationists to monitor non-human species.
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Ethemblage by leahgovia
Interactive story about more-than-human ethics
https://leahgovia.itch.io/ethemblage
4 months ago
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Geo: Geography and Environment
4 months ago
📢Since our relaunch 2 years ago, we have been working hard to create a space for geographical & interdisciplinary research on climate change, the environment & sustainability which doesn't fit neatly in sub-disciplinary journals
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2054...
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
4 months ago
Trump’s enviro agenda is based on 3 ideas: 1️⃣ We’ve made enough progress on 📉ing pollution 2️⃣ Indigenous & communities of color aren’t overburdened by pollution 3️⃣ Polluters can be trusted to comply w/ laws Each is wrong & we draw on EPA’s data to show it:
envirodatagov.org/a-new-wave-o...
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A New Wave of Air Toxics Demands Real Enforcement – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
This is the first installment of our State of Environmental Protection series. This series utilizes public data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate the current state of our e...
https://envirodatagov.org/a-new-wave-of-air-toxics-demands-real-enforcement/
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Canada is supposed to be developing a national strategy to address environmental racism and justice. These two bills obviously work against that.
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Federal, provincial environmental bills have 'no respect' for Ontario First Nations, says chief | CBC News
Nine Ontario First Nations asking for an injunction against a pair of federal and provincial bills meant to fast-track infrastructure projects revealed more details about constitutional challenges aga...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-first-nations-queens-park-bill-five-challenge-1.7586175
5 months ago
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Patrick Bigger
6 months ago
Today the guardian is debuting our new calculations of climate damage caused by Israel's genocide in Gaza. Greenhouse gases are not the most important reason to demand a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, but this data shows yet another way that genocide harms us all.
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Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries
Exclusive: The climate cost is more than than the combined 2023 emissions of Costa Rica and Estonia, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/carbon-footprint-of-israels-war-on-gaza-exceeds-that-of-many-entire-countries
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Ontario's Bill 5 is more permission to pollute, from a government who doesn't have the right to give it
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First Nations leaders in Ontario's Ring of Fire region demand Bill 5 be struck down | CBC News
First Nations leaders and environmental advocates are continuing to speak out against an Ontario bill aimed at speeding up development. In northern Ontario, home to the lucrative Ring of Fire mineral ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/bill-5-northwestern-ontario-response-1.7541316
6 months ago
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😵💫 "It’s 2025 and the idea that some police department or some big employer can be sued because of statistics ... is unfair." - US Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
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Trump Seeks to Strip Away Legal Tool Key to Civil Rights Enforcement
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-civil-rights.html
7 months ago
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Geo: Geography and Environment
7 months ago
🌎New
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paper in Geo🌍 'Challenging elite environmentalism: Stories from Brazil and India' by
@ritodhi.bsky.social
& Aline Carrara
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
#geosky
#geo
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
7 months ago
As DOGE works to make it easier to track people, Trump’s EPA plans to make it harder to track polluters. 1/3
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
#environmentaldatajustice
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Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters
Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-greenhouse-gas-reporting-climate-crisis
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
7 months ago
🌱 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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Systems Administrator - Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
Job Opening: Systems Administrator - Environmental Data & Governance Initiative at Multiplier in Remote.
https://multiplier-careers.pinpointhq.com/postings/190887a6-633f-42c1-a37a-5091d825d300
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“xAI has essentially built a power plant in South Memphis with no oversight, no permitting, and no regard for families living in nearby communities” Meanwhile, EPA says its mission is to "Make the United States the Artificial Intelligence Capital of the World"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Elon Musk’s xAI powering its facility in Memphis with ‘illegal’ generators
Advocacy group says the firm has doubled the number of methane gas burning turbines it’s using without permits
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/elon-musk-xai-memphis
8 months ago
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“Removing government datasets is tantamount to theft”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Green groups sue Trump administration over climate webpage removals
The White House has pulled federal webpages tracking climate and environmental justice data
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/trump-climate-webpage-removal-lawsuit
8 months ago
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Public Environmental Data Partners
8 months ago
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.
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🚮 NYT editorial board says "academics have tried to silence debate," equating this with (and blaming it as a cause of) Trump withholding public funds from universities, arresting students, dismantling departments, and all the other things that actually silence.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...
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Opinion | The Authoritarian Endgame on Higher Education
This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/opinion/trump-research-cuts.html
9 months ago
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Ruth Machen
9 months ago
Great to see this perspective piece with
@warrenpearce.bsky.social
finally come out. Amid the rising interest in AI we reflect on AI and the democratic governance of climate change - what lessons might be taken from wider critical digital studies?
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Anticipating the Challenges of AI in Climate Governance: An Urgent Dilemma for Democracies
Four principles for democratic use of AI in climate governance.
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.70002
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The Conversation U.S.
9 months ago
How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
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How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.
https://theconversation.com/how-to-find-climate-data-and-science-the-trump-administration-doesnt-want-you-to-see-249321?utm_content=buffer99b62&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=buffer
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Elizabeth Thompson
10 months ago
Meet some of the Canadian residents racing to save important medical and environmental data in the Trump administration's crosshairs.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canadian residents are racing to save the data in Trump's crosshairs | CBC News
As U.S. President Donald Trump's administration removes access to government websites and databases with critical medical and environmental data used around the world, some Canadian residents are play...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-us-medical-environmental-data-1.7457627
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
10 months ago
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:
screening-tools.com
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Grist
10 months ago
The scramble to save critical climate data from Trump’s war on DEI. “Policymakers and the public and communities need good information to make the best policy decision, whatever that is." Written by
@naveenasadasivam.bsky.social
grist.org/politics/the...
#Trump
#DEI
#Musk
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The scramble to save critical climate data from Trump's war on DEI
Researchers and activists are archiving websites and data because “policymakers and the public need good information to make the best policy."
https://grist.org/politics/the-scramble-to-save-critical-climate-data-from-trumps-war-on-dei/
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
10 months ago
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.
envirodatagov.org/trump-target...
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Trump Targets DEI Pages 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.
https://envirodatagov.org/trump-targets-dei-pages-at-the-epa/
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
10 months ago
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:
digitalhistory.github.io/j40-pages/en...
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Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
This screening tool identifies disadvantaged communities that are underserved &overburdened by pollution. It provides socioeconomic, environmental, health and climate info to inform decisions.
https://digitalhistory.github.io/j40-pages/en/#3/33.47/-97.5
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Patterns, a Cell Press journal
11 months ago
In our first bluesky post, we are excited to share our first issue of 2025!
www.cell.com/patterns/iss...
This issue includes a timely Opinion piece from
@envirodgi.bsky.social
explaining why they are working to archive environmental data hosted on US gov't sites.
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
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The Conversation U.S.
11 months ago
The second Trump administration might use scientific language to write policies that sound beneficial but could have profoundly negative effects on environmental health:
https://buff.ly/3PsoeC9
(
@ericnost.bsky.social
@uofguelph.bsky.social
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#EPA
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3 ways Trump’s EPA could use the language of science to weaken pollution controls
For example, the first Trump administration tried to use the principles of transparency to prevent federal agencies from considering major health studies when setting pollution rules.
https://buff.ly/3PsoeC9
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