Strengthening Communities members Stephen Ansolabehere, Hannah Perls, and Ana Martinez joined Francesca Dominici at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Melissa Finucane at the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Ryan Hathaway at Lawyers for Good Governance for a panel discussion on the uncertain future of environmental data at the third annual Harvard Climate Action Week. Learn more about the work each of these groups is leading below.

Environmental & Energy Law Program (EELP)

• Read the latest on the legal implications of the Trump administration’s environmental and energy rollback efforts. (Link)
• Keep up with the regulatory steps taken to roll back clean energy development and environmental protections. (Link)
• Track agency-specific updates and whole-of-government environmental justice initiatives. (Link)

Dominici Lab

• Dive into the work of Dr. Francesca Dominici and her lab. (Link)
• Public Environmental Data Partners (Link)
• The Impact Project (Link)
• Environmental Data publicly available in Harvard DataVerse (Link)

Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG)

• Access a comprehensive 50-state dashboard that tracks state-level policies, maps, and decision-makers driving Justice40 implementation, and offers resources to help identify “disadvantaged communities.” (Link)
• Explore a comprehensive dashboard of existing water and wetland protections across all 50 states, evaluating the quality of current safeguards and the ways in which they can be strengthened. (Link)

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

• Resources for scientists and others looking for ways to understand and respond to the obliteration of the U.S. science infrastructure. (Link)
• Read about the first six months of “attacks on science.” (Link)
• Read an editorial published in Science from UCS President Gretchen Goldman. (Link)
• Read about the elimination of US science advisory committees from UCS Vice President of Science Melissa Finucane. (Link)
• Read about the threat budget cuts pose to research innovation from UCS Vice President of Science Melissa Finucane. (Link)
• Read a thorough debunking of the Department of Energy’s sham climate report. (Link)
• Read about the “reorganization” of the Department of Agriculture. (Link) 
• Read about the problems with Trump’s “Restoring Gold Standard Science” executive order. (Link)

Read more about the Cluster’s own work preserving vulnerable government data on environmental justice, community issues, and public health here!