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. 

Organizations Involved:

There are dozens of people and organizations involved; these are the few that are available to discuss and engage with this work publicly:

• BU x Harvard Climate and Health CAFE Research Coordinating Center

• Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

• Environmental Policy Innovation Center

• Open Environmental Data Project

• Catalyst Cooperative