mastodon.ie is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Irish Mastodon - run from Ireland, we welcome all who respect the community rules and members.

Administered by:

Server stats:

1.6K
active users

#ejscreen

0 posts0 participants0 posts today
Cameron Mulder<p>The Trump admin is killing off the datasets that tell us what’s working and what’s broken — from maternal mortality and drug use to climate emissions and child welfare.</p><p>No data = no accountability. No measurement = no problem… right?</p><p>ProPublica lays it all out:<br>🔗 <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/trump-d</span><span class="invisible">oge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality</span></a></p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/DataDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataDestruction</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/EvidenceMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvidenceMatters</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/ChildWelfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChildWelfare</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/FederalData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalData</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/EJScreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EJScreen</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/WISQARS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WISQARS</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/DataIsPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataIsPower</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Update. "The mad dash to protect environmental data from Donald Trump"<br><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/18/24346025/data-donald-trump-climate-environment-epa" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/2025/1/18/2434602</span><span class="invisible">5/data-donald-trump-climate-environment-epa</span></a><br>(<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paywalled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paywalled</span></a>)</p><p>"Information about climate change vanished from federal websites under Donald Trump, who has repeatedly called climate change “a hoax.” Now, federal agencies could face deep staff and budget cuts overseen by Trump cronies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The proposed cuts not only threaten what kind of data the government shares but also whether it can collect and organize it at all....</p><p>One key resource that could languish under the Trump administration is the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EJScreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EJScreen</span></a>.…Even if it stays online, the tool is not as useful without constant upkeep....</p><p>Much of the environmental data included in EJScreen is collected by the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> itself. The EPA isn’t likely to abandon its air quality monitors anytime soon, but <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a>…proposes eliminating the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights that manages the tool...."</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Takedowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Takedowns</span></a></p>