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The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is a research collaborative and network of diverse professionals promoting evidence-based policy-making and public interest science that advances the Environmental Right-to-Know (ERTK).

EDGI is building software and research communities to track federal regulations, data, and websites. We have developed a research community who interview agency staff to offer uniquely human-centered analysis of changes within the federal government. Additionally, EDGI are developing new software for the public and their representatives to engage data on environmental contamination and the enforcement of environmental laws. EDGI are working to convene communities, academics, technologists, non-profits, and policy makers to discuss and develop more just, effective, accountable, and public forms of environmental data and governance.

EDGI’s work encompasses five major program areas:

• Analyzing the inner workings of federal environmental policy.
• Monitoring changes to, and exploring standards for, web-based information provided by the federal government about the environment, energy, and climate.
• Developing new ways of making environmental data more effective, accessible, just and accountable to the public.
• Conceptualizing and moving toward environmental data justice.
• Prototyping new organizational structures and practices for distributed, collective, and effective work rooted in justice.