Marcy Beck

Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods @stewardsofcr, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) @EnviroDGI, inspired every day by @POETSorg

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

Over the past five years, EDGI has documented and analyzed changes to US federal agency environmental websites. Our works points to the urgent need for better federal information policies, and specifically better website governance policies. https://t.co/RcjZq4EcJg 1/

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

Today, the Supreme Court hears a case targeting @EPA’s ability to curb accelerating global warming. The case signals a new era of hostility, but EPA can still act in important ways in addition to regulation. By EDGI's @LeifFredrickson via @washingtonpost: https://t.co/8cXAMbxr1S

[A Peoples EPA @APeoplesEPA]

Last week in EPA news: Tesla is fined, EPA suggestions are disregarded by USPS, and a watchdog announced audit of Benton Harbor response.

🗞️Check out our Monday 2/28/22 #EPA news roundup below 👇:

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

🚨New paper alert! EDGI members @ericnost & @emmacolven have an article in Geoforum on data-driven climate initiatives — & it’s available for free until the first week in April!

Read it here: https://t.co/k5msKXcbD2

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

To ensure #ScientificIntegrity & build public trust, the Biden admin must strengthen information policies, not just information itself.

Read EDGI's new blog for @UCSUSA to learn what we recommend based on years monitoring info on federal websites: https://t.co/RcjZq4VO7Q

[A Peoples EPA @APeoplesEPA]

The EPA’s future is our future. Its powers are vital to halting disastrous global warming. To understand the EPA’s future, we have to understand its past. That’s why we created this resource for the public on #EPA history & #ClimateChange. Check it out: https://t.co/mTV3WQMrl5 1/

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

Frmr @EPA officials call on Congress to pass a budget fully funding #EPA. The agency has 1/2 the resources as in 1980 w/more responsibilities, they write, adding EDGI found it had a 7.4% staff ⬇️, including over 670 scientists, b/w 2016 & 2020. In @BLaw: https://t.co/NCo1ufptel

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

Trump flushing presidential records down a WH toilet is a big deal. He illegally destroyed records belonging to the people. Federal records online are less clearly protected. Does this info also belong to the people? https://t.co/tn0nBtQ6Gl

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

The Biden administration has made progress restoring environmental info on fed websites. But policy preventing future censorship, manipulation, & removal of that info is still needed. Read EDGI’s new report to learn how Biden can protect federal info: https://t.co/glqjF0tnAm

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

"By restoring protections to the Arctic Refuge, Congress can help create a more just, sustainable future—for wildlife, for Arctic Indigenous peoples, & for everyone facing the fierce urgency of a warming 🌎." Important op-ed by EDGI member @FinisDunaway: https://t.co/z3UlBuMe8n

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

Today is #WorldWetlandsDay! Wetlands are a critical part of watersheds, protecting water quality/quantity & providing habitat. @EEWNetwork built a tool to show how federal regs impact watersheds. We'd love to host a workshop to look at watersheds near you. https://t.co/AjMKD0NFCR

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

Taking one more look back at 2021 in these last few days of January ...

[Marcy Beck @MarcyBeck]

So important to keep the Biden momentum going, building from language, content and access improvements to sorely needed web governance policy.

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

🚨Today is 1 year into Biden's admin, & progress has been made to restore info on fed websites. Yet policy preventing future censorship, manipulation, & removal of enviro info is still needed. Read EDGI’s new report to learn how Biden can protect fed info: https://t.co/glqjF0tnAm

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

New paper alert! Drawing on EDGI's #EPA oral history project, authors argue: “Agency action alone will not lead to needed systemic changes...for EJ communities until embedded systems of racial capitalism are upended.” Read it in Environmental Sociology : https://t.co/UDUkR2Y9dy

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

📣 A new article by EDGI's policy team is out in
@AMJPublicHealth! Authored by @MarianneSulliv1, @LeifFredrickson, & @ChrisCSellers, the paper argues for centering #ChildrensHealth and #EnvironmentalJustice at #EPA to improve the health of all. Read: https://t.co/xPRYAZX8Tn

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

EDGI's Environmental Historians Action Collaborative (EHAC) is co-organizing this exciting conference! Know someone who might like to participate? Check out the CFP below 👇

[Marcy Beck @MarcyBeck]

With gratitude to the unwavering commitment of @EnviroDGI members, including those carrying out this important work as volunteers.

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

1/ In 2021, EDGI continued working to build more effective, just, & equitable environmental data & governance systems. And we want to celebrate that – something we don’t do often enough! 🎉🎉🎉

🧵 Here are some EDGI highlights from 2021:

[Sara Ann Wylie @SaraAnnWylie]

Important new EDGI report: "Many [EPA] news
releases (34%)..promoted a distortion of reality, or spin, by selective inclusion of information and context...usually..to embellish the administration’s environmental record or omit environmental impacts of its deregulatory agenda."

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

1/ 🚨🚨🚨 EDGI’s Website Monitoring Team’s new report “Crossing the Line” analyzes #EPA news releases under Trump and recommends guidelines to protect federal information moving forward. Read the report: https://t.co/im8A6eZ1oQ 1/

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

🚨 We wrote about the problems of EPA relying on industry’s own estimates of emissions in this essay published by @sftporg and available here: https://t.co/yrV7nAKx77