Rebuilding Access to Critical Environmental Health Information

In light of the decisions at the federal level, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) is adding a dedicated Resources page to our website where we will share archived government resources/data from our partner organizations and allies. Please see below for our current list, which we will continue to add to over time.

EDGI (Environmental Data & Governance Initiative) has been working to make the federal screening tools available online. 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 was formed in November 2016 to document and analyze changes to vulnerable federal environmental data and governance practices under the Trump administration. EDGI has grown into the preeminent watchdog tracking and assessing modifications to federal environmental information resources and their accessibility; a national leader in highlighting Trump’s impacts on environmental, data, and information policies and practices; and the forerunner in developing a new field of inquiry and critique: environmental data justice
The Public Environmental Data Project is committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. They 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.
- [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.
- [February 8, 2025] Copy of EJScreen; will keep being updated to include functionality of EJScreen
You can check to see if a website has been captured by the Internet Archive by going to web.archive.org and typing or pasting in the URL in the search bar.
The End of Term Archive has archived more than 1 million federal webpages in and has snapshots publicly available. https://eotarchive.org/data/
- Scroll to Collection Search section, select “End Of Term (US Gov 2024)” from the menu and type in your query.
Harvard Federal Environmental Justice Tracker: If you’re looking for federal resources from the Biden administration on environmental justice, Harvard’s Environmental and Energy Law Programs’ environmental justice tracker is now searchable and includes permalinks (permanent URLs) for critical reports from CEQ, OMB, and other White House Offices.
Data Rescue 2025 Efforts and More: Document compiling many resources.
For data-heavy mapping tools like EJScreen, CJEST, FEMA’s National Risk Index and others, colleagues at Harvard’s Salata Institute have been uploading the underlying data files to the Dataverse for public download. When you go to their website, put in “EJ Tools”
Harvard Dataverse
- Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST)
- Environmental Justice Scorecard
- Environmental Justice Index (EJI)
- FEMA’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Projects Map; National Risk Index (NRI)
- DOE’s Energy Justice Dashboard (BETA)
Environmental and Energy Law Program – Harvard Law School has a Regulatory Tracker, including one focused on Federal Environmental Justice .
It tracks the actions of the Administration and tries to unofficially house documents that are being removed. As an example, you can find the Tracker dated 1/22/25 citing Rollback: CEQ’s Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) Removed – Environmental and Energy Law Program, which houses several tools previously on CDC and EPA, like CDC Environmental Justice Index (EJI) County Map Series: Prepared County Maps, etc.
Arizona State University’s Knowledge Exchange for Resilience has a backup of Heat.Gov
EPA Facts