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Cultures of Energy

Ep. #91 - Environmental Injustice at the EPA

19 Sep 2017

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Cymene and Dominic wonder whether haunted houses can help in the fight against climate change. Then (11:55) we welcome Britt Paris (UCLA) and Sara Wylie (Northeastern U) to the podcast to bring us up to speed on what the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI, https://envirodatagov.org) has been doing to monitor the unfolding anti-science agenda at the EPA and other federal agencies, especially recent cuts to environmental justice initiatives. We talk about how they both got involved in EDGI, the important of open source infrastructure to their work, the language and practice of data rescue, what the collective has discovered about what went on in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency, what we can learn from the successful resistance to the Reagan administration's efforts to dismantle the EPA, and what is contained in their remarkable new report, "Pursuing a Toxic Agenda: Environmental Injustice in the Early Trump Administration" (http://100days.envirodatagov.org/pursuing-toxic-agenda/). We discuss the EPA's "starvation diet" even under Obama, how to optimize the relationship between communities and data and why a move toward a decolonizing and feminist principles of "environmental data justice" would be a step in the right direction. Finally we close with climate change as an environmental justice issue, the need to build alternative data gathering systems, the future of EDGI and how you can get involved with their work if you feel so moved, dear listeners.

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