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Rapid and Thorough Deletion of Environmental Information by Trump Administration
The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) has released a report which documents the rapid and thorough deletion of environmental information by the Trump administration. Press Release: Report Shows Rapid and Thorough Deletion of Environmental Information by Trump Administration FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (August 6, 2025). Most dramatically, information about environmental racism has been entirely excised […]
Vanishing data undermines public policy globally
The alteration and removal of data collected by the US Federal Government will have effects world wide. Researchers around the world rely on good, accurate, timely, and historical data provided, maintained, and preserved by the US government. A recent article describes this situation for Canada: Vanishing data in the U.S. undermines good public policy, with […]
New: The Federal Data Forum
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) has launched the Federal Data Forum — an online community of hundreds of public data stakeholders (groups and individuals) interested in protecting the federal data infrastructure. PRB is a nonpartisan organization that advocates for the democratization of data. Members of the forum can share news, resources, and data advocacy strategies […]
JCP and JCL house members
House Resolution 190, introduced on March 5, 2025, names Mike Carey (R, OH:15), Joseph Morelle (D, NY:25), and Julie Johnson (D, TX:32) to the the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library and Joseph Morelle (D, NY:25), Gregory Murphy (R, NC:3), Terri Sewell (D, AL:7), and Mary Miller (R, IL:15) to the Joint Committee on […]
The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is
[This post is adapted from our forthcoming book, Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.] Today we want to clarify something important about preserving government information. There is a difference between the government changing a policy and the government erasing information, but the line between those two has blurred in the digital age. When a […]
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