Climate Change
‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump
As one of its first acts, the Trump administration removed the online data tool used to allocate money to environmental justice communities. In two days, a coalition of data scientists had restored it on an independent internet domain.
One day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a digital mapping tool used by federal and state agencies to identify environmentally disadvantaged communities was taken offline. Within 48 hours, a coalition of data scientists known as the Public Environmental Data Project had resurrected a functional but unofficial copy of the tool on an independent domain.
‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump