Public Environmental Data Project
The Public Environmental Data Project is 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.
Updates
[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.