‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump

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. The … Continue reading ‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump