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New Rule Reshapes What Science Is Allowed To Ask
A new Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rule would make political alignment a prerequisite for federal science funding. The public comment period closes on July 13th.
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Catch up on PEDP’s latest blog posts, reports, happenings, and more on how we are protecting and rebuilding our public environmental data infrastructure and tools.
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HIFLD Next: Restoring America’s Infrastructure Datasets
PEDP and Fulton Ring are proud to unveil a new community-shaped hub for browsing, previewing and downloading a variety of public GIS data, including an archive from the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data. Nicknamed HIFLD Next, our portal launches with a collection of more than 400 infrastructure- and resilience-related data layers that the US Department of Homeland Security used to curate and share with the public on its now-defunct HIFLD Open data portal.
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A Year of Resistance and Resilience for Climate and Environmental Data and Tools
When the orders to remove data from public access came, PEDP utilized our network of federal staff, researchers, academics, and technologists to identify and prioritize the information most at risk, and we soon started archiving as much information as possible through individual and collective efforts. We created intentional spaces to have open discussions about the future of our data infrastructure and imagine a world with more robust, valuable, and reliable data networks.
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Stories Behind the Data Loss
Data can seem abstract. But what really matters are the stories behind it: what datasets make possible, and who gets hurt when they disappear. Since PEDP’s founding, part of our coalition’s mission has been to make visible not just the data at risk, but the people who depend on it. When our data infrastructure works, it is largely invisible, noticeable only when it fails. PEDP’s advocacy work seeks to bring these stories into the light.
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Ready, Set, Archive!
In November 2024, a group of organizations and individuals sprang into action to safeguard environmental data. Some were implementing projects after months of preparation; others were compelled in the moment; and all had the same goal to preserve public access to federal climate and environmental information.
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How we Built a Coalition During a Crisis
There was plenty to be anxious about 15 months ago, as the prospect of a second Trump administration loomed in the leadup to election day. For the organizations and individuals who would eventually become PEDP, one particular question took precedence: What would happen to the environmental and climate data we rely on, and what could we do to protect it?
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A Year of Threats to Our Public Information
Over the past year, the Trump administration has moved aggressively to remove public access to federal data, information, and tools. The fields of climate, health, environment, and justice have been particularly targeted. Decades of scientific expertise and institutional knowledge have been lost in cuts to federal staffing and funding for research. Beyond the data itself, the infrastructure supporting it—especially people, technology, and governance—is under attack.
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Environmental Justice Requires High Quality Information, Now More Than Ever
Information about the distribution of climate impacts, pollutant concentrations, and other environmental risks is indispensable to communities, organizations, and policymakers who face these threats and work to address them. In the past, the federal government recognized this importance and elevated these issues, directing federal agencies to develop data tools to help inform work toward achieving environmental justice throughout the United States.
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The Women Saving America's Climate Data
A look at several teams of mostly women who are committed to protecting vulnerable climate and environmental data.
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