Read: Mississippi River towns pilot new insurance model to help with disaster response
Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens & Eric Schmid, St. Louis Public Radio for Grist
Read: Environmental Justice at Risk Under Project 2025
Matthew Tejada, NRDC
Martina Mascarenhas for CGIAR
Read: Scientists Scramble to Save Climate Data from Trump—Again
Chelsea Harvey and E&E News for Scientific American
Read: An Open Source Python Library for Anonymizing Sensitive Data
Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz & Álvaro López García for Scientific Data
Read: Civic Engagement & Policymaking Toolkit
Community Science Initiative at the Association of Science & Technology Centers
Read: The Climate Stakes of teh Harris-Trump Election
Grist Staff, Grist
Read: New Report: Satellite Technology Holds Promise for Communities Without Air Quality Monitors
American Lung Association
Read: In data governance, good policies aren’t enough
Tracey Li, Data Values Digest
Read: Could Congress Leverage AI to Help Restore Faith in US Democracy?
Lorelei Kelly, TechPolicy.press
Read: Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
Kylie Robinson for The Verge
Listen: Climate and health data website launched
Susan Cosier, Environmental Factor
Read: One of the World's Biggest Health Risks Is a Philanthropic Blind Spot
Christa Hasenkopf; The New York Times
Read: Algorithmic Environmentality: Data Infrastructures in Global Environmental Governance
Roxana Vatanparast; SSRN
Read: The states where climate progress is on the ballot
Kate Yoder, Grist
Read: The Risky Business of Predicting Where Climate Disaster Will Hit
Eric Roston, Krishna Karra, Leslie Kaufman, and Sinduja Rangarajan for Bloomberg Green
Listen: The Ripple Effect
Emmett Fitzgerald; The Not Built for This series on 99% Invisible
Read: How a US health agency became a shield for polluters
Jaimi Dowdell, M.B. Pell, Benjamin Lesser, Michelle Conlin, Phoebe Quinton and Waylon Cunningham; Reuters
Read: e1: Environment & Sustainability Playbook
Aapti Institute
Read: Protect California communities from harmful emissions from oil refineries
Action Alerts from Earthjustice
Read: Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science
Julia Lowndes, et. al, Ecology and Evolution
Read: The sphere of exposure: Centering user experience in community science air monitoring
Marisa Westbrook, et. al, Frontiers
Read: Biden team wades into open source AI controversy
Ina Fried, Axios
Read: How Kamala Harris and Donald Trump compare on climate change
Samantha Harrington, Sara Peach and Pearl Marvell, Yale Climate Connections
Read: What defines a heat wave? The answer could decide where disaster dollars go.
Sachi Kitajima Mulkey, Grist
Read: Policy Brief: Governing Digital Public Infrastructure as a Commons
Open Knowledge Foundation
Read: The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports
Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic
Read: The Library is a Commons
Emily Drabinski, In These Times
Listen: Jose Ramon Becerra Vera on democratizing science
Brian Bienkowski and Jose Ramon Becerra Vera, Environmental Health News
Read: Your Artificial Future is Repulsive: On Climate Change, Data Tech, and Artifice
Theodora Dryer, Just Tech
Read: A lack of data hampers efforts to fix racial disparities in utility cutoffs
Akielly Hu, Grist
Read: Enabling Data Sharing for Social Benefit Through Data Trusts: Data Trusts in Climate
The Global Partnership of Artificial Intelligence
Read: Here's What the Supreme Court's Chevron Ruling Could Mean in Everyday Terms
Coral Davenport, Christina Jewett, Alan Rappeport, Margot Sanger-Katz, Noam Scheiber and Noah Weiland, The New York Times
Read: Preparing Researchers for an Era of Freer Information
Peter W. B. Phillips, Issues in Science & Technology
Read: Hi, I’m Disaster Bot
Antonia Timmerman, Rest of World
Read: The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates
Mariana Mazzucato, The Guardian
Listen: The Possible Collapse of the Home Insurance System
The Daily, The New York Times
Read: The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water
Sachi Kitajima Mulkey, Grist
Read: A Better Deal for Data
Read: Emerging local data futures
Katya Abazajian, Civic Source Newsletter
Listen: Will A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It?
Nilay Patel and Ezra Klein, The Ezra Klein Show
Read: Harvesting Minnesota’s Wind Twice
Ariel Kagan and Mike Reese, Issues in Science and Technology
Read: Why we still need a CERN for climate change
Tim Palmer, Physics World
Read: Chemical Futures and Environmental Data Justice
Michelle Murphy, Undercurrents: Journal of Environmental Studies
Read: Towards Fairer Horizons: Cooperativist Solutions to Tackle Platform Capitalism
Viraj Desai, Bot Populi
Read: Permitting at EPA
EPA
Read: Participation versus scale: Tensions in the practical demands on participatory AI
Meg Young, et. al, First Monday
Read: Word from the Smokies: Cicada emergence offers rare community science opportunity
Holly Kays, Citizen Times
Read: Kicking Native People Off Their Land is a Horrible Way to Save the Planet
Robert A. Williams, Jr., New York Times
Read: Illinois EPA must revamp its permitting process after Chicago activists file civil rights complaint
Siri Chilukuri and Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Grist
United Nations Development Programme
Read: ‘The EPA needs to humble itself’: why some US non-profits are turning down agency funds
Nick Tabor, The Guardian
Read: Axios' February Newsletter
Axios
Read: In 2023, organized labor became core to the climate movement
Katie Myers, Grist
Read: For Real Environmental Justice, We Need Community Input into Federal Rules
Darya Minovi, Union of Concerned Scientists
Read: The People Have a Right to Climate Data
Justin S. Mankin, The New York Times
Read: Meet the communities trying to take over their local electric utility
Akielly Hu, Grist
Read: The Internet Con:How to Seize the Means of Computation
Cory Doctorow
Read: A Sustainable Internet for All - Issue 7
Branch Magazine
Read: UN declares PFAS pollution in North Carolina a human rights violation
Katie Myers, Grist
Read: In this together: Combining individual and collective strategies to confront data power
My Data, Aapti Institute, Datasphere Initiative, and Connected by Data
Read: Public outcry against carbon capture in Louisiana growing
Terry L. Jones, The Lens
Read: Publishing your agency’s software as open source puts you at a major advantage.
Waldo Jaquith
Read: The best forest managers? Indigenous peoples, study says.
Maria Parazo Rose, Grist
Read: Climate data can save lives. Most countries can’t access it.
Zoya Teirstein, Grist
Read: Here’s what’s at stake for Indigenous peoples at COP28
Anita Hofschneider, Grist
Jonathan Zong and J. Nathan Matias, ACM Journal on Responsible Computing
Read: A Tangle of Rules to Protect America's Water is Falling Short
Dionne Searcey and Delger Erdenesanaa, The New York Times
Listen: Big Tech Won’t Revitalize Indigenous Languages
Tech Won't Save Us Podcast
Read: To keep track of salmon migrations in real time, First Nations turn to AI
Spoorthy Raman, Mongabay
Read: The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle
Heidi Blake, The New Yorker
Read: Gov. Newsom Signs Right To Repair Bill Into Law
Evan Symon, California Globe
Read: Geographies of Digital Exclusion: Data and Inequality
Mark Graham and Martin Dittus, Oxford Internet Institute
Read: Democrats unveil ‘most comprehensive plan ever’ to address plastics problem
Joseph Winters, Grist
Read: Alleviating Environmental Health Disparities Through Community Science and Data Integration
Mónica D. Ramírez-Andreotta, Frontiers
Read: Why the United States undercounts climate-driven deaths
Zoya Teirstein, Grist
Sharon Lerner, ProPublica
Read: Break barriers in soil data stewardship by rewarding data generators
Tegbaru B. Gobezie & Asim Biswas, Nature
Read: Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI
David Gray Widder, Sarah West & Meredith Whittaker, SSRN
Read: The Santa Barbara Charter: Broadening Participation in Environmental Data Science
Environmental Data Science
Read & Interact With : Artificial Worldviews
Kim Albrecht
Read: Climate Connections: A warming planet, pathogens, and diseases
Zoya Teirstein, Grist
Maxwell Evans, Block Club Chicago
Read: Collective Data Rights and Their Possible Abuse
Asaf Lubin, Temple Law Review
Read: Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth
Jon Gertner, New York Times Magazine
Read: Data Center Fights
Anne Pasek, Experimental Methods and Media Lab
Listen: How can AI help with climate change?: A conversation with MIT's Priya Donti
Volts Podcast
Listen: The Wild Wild West of Climate Modeling
America Adapts, The Climate Change Podcast
Read: Supreme Court Keeps Navajo Nation Waiting for Water
Anna V. Smith, High Country News; Umar Farooq and Mark Olalde, ProPublica
Read: Operationalizing digital self-determination
Stefaan G. Verhulst, Data & Policy
Listen/Read: The Book I Wish Every Policymaker Would Read
Jennifer Pahlka and Ezra Klein, The Ezra Klein Show
Read: Free software, sustainability and social movements
Interview with Silvio Rhatto, Tech for Forests
Read: In search of answers at the Salton Sea
Caroline Tracey, High Country News
Listen: Don’t Fall for the AI Hype w/ Timnit Gebru
Tech Won't Save Us
Read: Reporting on climate adaptation is a mess - here's how to fix it
Richard J T Klein, Nella Canales and Biljana Macura, Climate Home News
Read: In the Game of Musical Mines, Environmental Damage Takes a Back Seat
Ken Ward Jr., Mountain State Spotlight, and Alex Mierjeski with data analysis by Scott Pham, ProPublica
Read: A new way to put climate data to work
Joel Gurin, Apolitical
Read: 'Rights' of the river: NC bill seeks unique protection for Haw
John Deem, Winston-Salem Journal
Resource: Pathways to Open Science
Read: Pathways for diversifying and enhancing science advocacy
Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Phil Brown, Shannon Dosemagen, Dana R. Fisher, Scott Frickel, Norah MacKendrick, David S. Meyer, John N. Parker; Science Advances
Sarah Sax, Grist
The White House
Read: Responsible data stewardship
Open Data Institute
Listen/Read: Biden Administration to Curb Toxic Pollutants From Chemical Plants
Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman, The New York Times
Zuzanna Warso, Paul Keller, & Alek Tarkowski, Open Future
Read: Citizen Science and Law
Citizen Science Theory and Practice
Read: AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023
IPCC
Read: Exploring Citizen Science over Time: Sensing, Technology and the Law
Anna Berti Suman and Edwin Alblas, Sustainability
Read: Collaborative Advantage: Creating Global Commons for Science, Technology, and Innovation
Leonard Lynn and Hal Salzman, Issues in Science & Technology
Read: Biden Administration Approves Huge Alaska Oil Project
Lisa Friedman, The New York Times
Read: In a growing petrochemical hub, the East Palestine derailment triggers ‘an uneasy feeling’
Eve Andrews, Grist
Read: Data Co-ops: How Cooperative Structures Can Support Women's Empowerment
Astha Kapoor and Bapu Vaitla, data2x
Listen/Read: How Liberals - Yes, Liberals - Are Hobbling Government
Ezra Klein feat. Nicholas Bagley, The Ezra Klein Show
Read: Resource and Data Hubs
Open Data Enterprise
Read: As the Colorado River Shrinks, Washington Prepares to Spread the Pain
Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times
Search: The Uproot Project Database
The Uproot Project
Read: Data-driven government: Cross-case comparison of data stewardship in data ecosystems
W. van Donge, N. Bharosa & M.F.W.H.A. Janssen, ScienceDirect
Listen/Read: Colorado River in Crisis: A Times series on the Southwest’s shrinking water lifeline
The Los Angeles Times
The White House
Read: Data Stories and Climate Sensing
Data Refuge Storytelling
Read: A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Kari De Pryck & Mike Hulme, Cambridge University Press
Read: New web tool by Drexel lab helps you access refinery pollution data
Sophia Schmidt, WHYY.org
Read: Data Ethics in the Participatory Sciences Toolkit
CitizenScience.org
Listen: There's Been a Massive Change in Where American Policy Gets Made
Ezra Klein & Jacob Grumbach, The New York Times
Read: Billion-dollar NASA satellite launches to track Earth’s water
Jeff Tollefson, Nature.com
Read: Crossing the Fenceline: Critical Reforms to California’s Petroleum Refinery Emissions Monitoring Law
EarthJustice.org
Read: Here’s Where the U.S. Is Testing a New Response to Rising Seas
Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times
Read: In Baytown case, Exxon seeks limit on citizens' right to sue over pollution
James Osborne, The Houston Chronicle
Read: Safe Passage: Options for Data Portability in the Humanitarian Sector
Collaborative Cash Delivery
Read: Opinion: Science Has a Communication Problem – and a Connection Problem
Paul M. Sutter, Undark
Read: 5 Things about Critical Data Center Studies
Mél Hogan, Dustin Edwards, and Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, CommonPlace
EPA
Read: Why climate despair is a luxury
Rebecca Solnit, New Statesman
Read: Despite promises, California doesn’t know how many people died in record summer heat wave
Hayley Smith, LA Times
Luke Waterman, Mónica Rivas Casado, Emma Bergin & Gary McInally, MDPI
Read: Tax the rich for climate action? Protect towns from floods? It’s on state ballots this November.
Blanca Begert, Grist
Read: Open-weather: Speculative-feminist propositions for planetary images in an era of climate crisis
Sasha Engelmann, Sophie Dyer, Lizzie Malcolm & Daniel Powers, Science Direct
Read: Congress is spending millions on new air monitors. Will it make a difference?
Lylla Younes, Grist
Read: U.S. ratifies global treaty curbing climate super-pollutants
Steven Munson, Washington Post
Read: Higher Ground
Jake Bittle, Grist
Read: Making Government Data Publicly Available: Guidance for Agencies on Releasing Data Responsibly
Hugh Grant-Chapman & Hannah Quay-de la Vallee, Center for Democracy & Technology
Read: Brief - Breakthroughs for All: Delivering Equitable Access to America’s Research
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Read: Fishing for Sustainability – The promise of equitable data stewardship
Suha Mohamed & Vinay Narayan, The Data Economy Lab by Aapti Institute
Read: Residents are a City’s Best Source of Climate Change Data
Sarah Amandolare, Yes Magazine
Read: Harm's Way
The Center for Public Integrity
Read: How Boeing created a nature preserve that may also preserve pollution
Jaimi Dowdell and Andrea Januta, Reuters
Read: Without appropriate metadata, data-sharing mandates are pointless
Mark A. Musen, Nature
Rebecca Townsend and Carmin C. Reiss, Journal of Deliberative Democracy
Read: Memo - Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Read: Sentinels
Anna Berti Suman, Branch Magazine
Listen: How Biden can address climate change through executive action with Jean Su & Maya Golden-Krasner
David Roberts, Volts Podcast
Marco Tedesco, Carolynne Hultquist, and Alex de Sherbinin in Environmental Justice
Read: Governing data and artificial intelligence for all: Models for sustainable and just data governance
European Parliament
Read: Nashville Heat Mapping Campaign
Memorial University Gazette, Jeff Green
Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County
Read: Le Guin and data questions
Public Policy Team at Open Data Institute
Read: Western Oil and Gas Spills Tracker
Center for Western Priorities
Read: As Federal Climate-Fighting Tools are Taken Away, Cities and States Step Up
Maggie Astor, New York Times
Look at: Prison Agriculture Lab
Listen: Improving Governance with Data: Building Data Collaboratives for the 100 Questions Governance Domain
The GovLab, Uma Kalkar & Stefaan Verhulst
Read: Building Northern Capacity
Memorial University Gazette, Jeff Green
Cathleen Berger & Chris Hartgerink
Read: A Conversation with Mimi Ọnụọha
DataSciencexDesign, Natalie O'Shea
Read: A Just Transition for Farmworkers
Sarah Sax, High Country News
Read: Block-by-block data shows pollution’s stark toll on people of color
Darryl Fears, Washington Post
Listen: Data Labs Playbook
Beeck Center for Social Impact & National Governors Association
Read: Wicked Problems in Public PolicyUnderstanding and Responding to Complex Challenges
Brian Head
Read: The Future of Data Science Anthology
Ciera Martinez & others
Listen: Hot Take Podcast
Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt, Crooked Media
Read: DOJ announces new office focused on environmental justice
Rachel Frazin, The Hill
Listen: Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data
Delaney Hall, 99% Invisible
Read: Opening Up to Science
Chelle Gentemann, Christopher Erdmann & Caitlin Kroeger, Issues in Science & Technology
Listen: In Wisconsin, small towns want more regulations for big farms
Diana Kruzman, Grist
Read: There are millions of acres of 'failing' rangelands, data shows
Kylie Mohr, High Country News
Read: The world's most ambitious climate goes is essentially out of reach
Shannon Osaka, Grist
Read: In a Michigan City, Environmental Justice Gets a Critical Test
Farah Kader, Undark
Read: A Value-Driven Approach to Building Data Infrastructures: The Example of the Midwest Collaborative
Jessica Cunningham, et. al., HDSR
Read: "Shared Data," a short story from an alternate future
Malka Older, Popular Science
Listen: David Hsu on the grassroots policy that lets communities control own energy supply
David Roberts, Volts Podcast
Read: Internal Report Describes 'Incredibly Toxic Work Environment' in New Chemicals Division
Sharon Lerner, The Intercept
Read: Climate change causing widespread and irreversible impacts, says IPCC
Adam Vaughn, NewScientist
Read: A new environmental justice tool disregards race. We put it back in.
Naveena Sadasivam and Clayton Aldern, Grist
Read: Promoting collaboration at the national and local level to strengthen data governance
Flor Serale and Mercedes de los Santos, Open Data Charter
Read: We Don’t Have the Right: A Decolonized Approach to Innovation
Shayna Robinson, Branch Magazine
Listen: Damages podcast
Amy Westervelt, Critical Frequency
Read: Best Practices in Local Climate Action Planning: Recent Developments in Local Climate Action Plans
Cynthia Harris, Environmental Law Institute
Read: A Landmark Environmental Precedent Was Just Set in Virginia
Crystal “Red Bear” Cavalier Keck, The Nation
Read: Open up guide: Using data to advance climate action
Open Data Charter and World Resources Institute
Read: (dis)Info Studies: André Brock, Jr. on Why People Do What They Do on the Internet
Logic Mag
Listen: Democrats Chase Shiny Objects
The Ezra Klein Show
Read: House of Representatives to launch new digital service team
John Hewitt Jones, FedScoop
Read: Climate action in the open
Katya Abazajian, Civic Source
Read: Chile Writes a New Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On
Somini Sengupta, New York Times
Read: Decentralising Digital: Artefacts from Hopeful Futures
Decentralising Digital, Branch
Read: ‘Cultural resources are not a renewable thing for us.’
Sarah Sax, High Country News
Read: Texans have an opening to envision an environmental agency that works for everyone
Michael Coleman, One Breath Partnership
Read: A Community Shapes Environmental Justice Legislation
Lorelei Kelly, Beeck Center
Read: What Sci-Hub’s latest court battle means for research
Holly Else, Nature
Read: The ‘last mile’ for climate data supporting local adaptation
Louis Celliers, Maria Manez Costa, David Samuel Williams and Sergio Rosendo, Global Sustainability
Darryl Fears, The Washington Post
Listen: Indigenous Climate Knowledges and Data Sovereignty
James Rattling Leaf, Sr. and Krystal Tsosie, Jacquelyn Gill, Ramesh Laungani, Warm Regards Podcast
Read: Next Wave Openness
Michael Weinberg, personal blog
Read: Localized Data: The Pathway to Climate Change Solutions
Olasimbo Sojinrin, Danielle Getsinger, Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño; Data.org
Read: COP26: New financing mechanism to plug gaps in climate data, bolster response
Read: Emerging models of data governance in the age of datafication
Marina Micheli, Marisa Ponti, Max Craglia, Anna Berti Suman; Big Data & Society
Read: Getting started with data governance
Anouk Ruhaak, Mozilla
Read: A California law gave the people power to cut pollution. Why isn’t it working?
Naveena Sadasivam, Grist
Read: Poison in the Air
Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Al Shaw, Lisa Song, Maya Miller; ProPublica
Read: Let Us See It
Gregg Mitman, Slate
Amrita Nanda, Suha Mohamed, The Bastion
Read: The Data is Ours!
Ben Tarnoff, Logic
Anne Bowser, Shannon Dosemagen and Alexandra Novak, Wilson Center
Read: The Key to Stronger Local Democracy: Equitable Engagement
Mark Funkhouser and Steven Bosacker, Route Fifty
Read: COVID’s lesson for climate research: go local
Alice C. Hill, Nature
Read: An Indigenous firefighter explains how to better manage wildfires
Benji Jones, Vox
Read: City Data Commons against City Greenwashing
Renata Avila and Guy Weress, Branch Magazine
Read: Environmental data collection by citizens is a right
Anna Berti Suman, Dutch Research Council
Watch: My Octopus Teacher
Craig Foster, Netflix
Read: Zoom Does Not Reduce Unequal Participation: Evidence from Public Meeting Minutes
Katherine Levine Einstein, David Glick, Luisa Godienz Puig, Maxwell Palmer, Boston University
