The Trump administration’s policies raised concerns about the preservation of critical environmental data. Recognizing the risk of losing valuable information, Eric Nost and the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI) took proactive steps to archive datasets at risk of deletion.
The Preservation Effort
Nost and EDGI collaborated to identify and preserve key datasets related to climate change and environmental science, including:
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