#edgi — Public Fediverse posts

“If you #suppress data … you can say anything you want to say if you remove #evidence to the contrary,”

says Gretchen #Gehrke, one of the lead authors of the #report published this week by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (#EDGI).

#trump #disinformation #usa #antiscience

https://www.theverge.com/science/757084/data-purge-climate-change-environmental-justice-trump

#EDGI is a nonprofit network of researchers who work with data, started after President Trump took office in 2017. It documents loss of access and usability of government environmental information and preserves that information for public use.

The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (#EDGI) just issued a new report on the "rapid and thorough deletion of environmental information by the #Trump administration."

* Press release
https://envirodatagov.org/press-release-report-shows-rapid-and-thorough-deletion-of-environmental-information-by-trump-administration/

* Report itself
https://envirodatagov.org/publication/climate-of-suppression-environmental-information-under-the-second-trump-administration/

#Climate #Censorship #DefendResearch #Environment #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

New Report From #EDGI Shows Rapid and Thorough Deletion of Environmental Information by Trump Administration https://www.infodocket.com/2025/08/07/new-report-from-edgi-shows-rapid-and-thorough-deletion-of-environmental-information-by-trump-administration/ #climate #data @envi

It comes from a loose coalition of #archivists & #librarians, who are standing athwart #history & yelling “Save!” They belong to organizations such as the #InternetArchive, which co-created a project called the End of Term Web Archive to back up the federal web in 2008; the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, or #edgi; & #libraries at major #universities such as #MIT & the University of #Michigan.

#DigitalBookBurning #TrumpPurge #InfoSec #Trump

Update. "EDGI Relaunches Federal Environmental Web Tracker"
https://envirodatagov.org/press-release-edgi-relaunches-federal-environmental-web-tracker/

"In response to the #Trump administration’s rapid dismantling of federal websites, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (#EDGI) has relaunched its Federal Environmental Web Tracker…The… Tracker makes records of significant changes to federal environmental websites publicly available in a searchable database…Since the first Trump administration, EDGI has monitored thousands of federal environmental webpages. Partners at the #InternetArchive download these webpages every day, and EDGI’s #OpenSource software compares versions of these webpages to identify differences."

#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Environment #Monitoring #Preservation #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics