Public Environmental Data Partners

The Public Environmental Data Partners are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. We are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. To gather insights on what data to preserve, we reached out to our networks, which consist largely of environmental justice groups and networks, state and local government climate offices, and academic researchers. We compiled a large list of federal databases and tools, and prioritized them based on their relative impact, our confidence that we could archive them, and the relative effort it would take to obtain and archive them.

Fill out the form here to nominate data for us to preserve.

Updates

• [March 27, 2025] PEDP shared list of archived resources here.

• [March 19, 2025] PEDP created a new map that displays environmental justice grants the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made through the Inflation Reduction Act since 2024.

• [February 28, 2025] Access to DOE Local Investment Map for Demonstration and Deployment Projects was made publicly available.

• [February 27, 2025] Access to FEMA’s Future Risk Index was made publicly available.

• [February 14, 2025] Access to EPA EJAM was made publicly available.

• [February 7, 2025] Access to EPA EJScreen was made publicly available.

• [January 31, 2025] Access to CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index and Environmental Justice Index was made publicly available.

• [January 24, 2025] Access to Council on Environmental Quality EJScorecard was made publicly available.

• [January 24, 2025] Access to Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool was made publicly available.

• [January 23, 2025] Based on these criteria, we have identified 57 high-priority databases, of which we’ve archived 37 thus far. In addition, we have made replicas of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening tool, and EJScreen.