The women saving America’s climate data

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🗞️ Driving the news: A women-led network of scientists, technologists, librarians and policy experts is racing to preserve U.S. climate and environmental data amid sweeping rollbacks under President Donald Trump’s second administration
• Hundreds of federal climate and environmental datasets have been taken offline, altered, or stripped of public access
• In response, coalitions like Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) are archiving, restoring and rebuilding tools at unprecedented speed

🔭 The context: Veterans of the 2017–2021 Trump presidency anticipated renewed attacks on climate science—but not their scale or pace
• Environmental website changes are happening faster and more extensively than during Trump’s first term
• Equity-focused tools, such as environmental justice datasets, have been among the most heavily targeted

🌍 Why it matters for sustainability: Climate and environmental data underpin everything from disaster response and water safety to emissions tracking and public health
• Loss of data weakens climate adaptation, resilience planning and environmental justice
• Preserving open access safeguards evidence-based decision-making and democratic accountability

⏭️ What’s next: Grassroots data rescue efforts face a funding and sustainability crunch
• Long-term viability will require major philanthropic and institutional support
• Without it, critical climate knowledge risks fragmentation or disappearance

💬 One quote: “Government data can’t be replaced,” said former U.S. chief data scientist Denice Ross

📈 One stat: 311,000+ federal datasets have already been archived independently to prevent loss

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