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/...

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...

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? 👀❌💸 Join @scienceforthepeople and @ResearchForTheFrontLines for a free, two-part beginner-friendly workshop that breaks down the mysteries of […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

🧵 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/...

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. capitalbnews.org/data-center-...

The newly formed Environmental Justice Data & Mapping Society is hiring a coordinator: drive.google.com/file/d/1Mot9...

What if feeding babies was a "nation-building" project instead of fossil fuel infrastructure? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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]

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/...

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...

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...

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

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/...

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)

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)

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/...

So excited to see this article out! Thank you for the opportunity contribute EEW and EDGI!

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/...

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.

📢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... 1/3

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... (🧵 1/3):

Canada is supposed to be developing a national strategy to address environmental racism and justice. These two bills obviously work against that. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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.

Ontario's Bill 5 is more permission to pollute, from a government who doesn't have the right to give it www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

😵‍💫 "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...

🌎New #OA paper in Geo🌍 'Challenging elite environmentalism: Stories from Brazil and India' by @ritodhi.bsky.social & Aline Carrara doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo

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

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

“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...

“Removing government datasets is tantamount to theft” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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.

🚮 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...

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....

How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see

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...

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

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 #Climate

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...

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...

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...

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) 🌎#climatesky #pollution #EPA