The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) has released a report which documents the rapid and thorough deletion of environmental information by the Trump administration. Press Release: Report Shows Rapid and Thorough Deletion of Environmental Information by Trump Administration FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (August 6, 2025). Most dramatically, information about environmental racism has been entirely excised […] The post Rapid and Thorough Deletion of Environmental Information by Trump...| Free Government Information (FGI)
The world of government information continues to be in a state of topsy-turviness. Last month, on a Tuesday, NOAA suddenly announced that on the following Monday, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) would “discontinue ingest, processing and distribution of all DMSP data no later than June […] The post Once-cancelled hurricane-monitoring data to stay online (for now) first appeared on Free Government I...| Free Government Information (FGI)
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This bit of good news just dropped! The Internet Archive has joined the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The FDLP is a network of over 1000 libraries around the country who receive government publications from the Government Publishing Office (GPO) and offer public services to help those in their communities access the great wide world … Continue reading → The post Internet Archive designated an FDLP Library! first appeared on Free Government Information (FGI).| Free Government Information (FGI)
Please join us for a virtual book talk August 28th at 10am PST hosted by the Internet Archive (FREE!) to talk about our new book “Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.” Our PEGI Project pal Shari Laster will be grilling us … er … I mean … guiding the conversation. The post Join JJ and JRJ for a book talk at Internet Archive aug 28 10am PST first appeared on Free Government Information (FGI).| Free Government Information (FGI)
The alteration and removal of data collected by the US Federal Government will have effects world wide. Researchers around the world rely on good, accurate, timely, and historical data provided, maintained, and preserved by the US government. A recent article describes this situation for Canada: Vanishing data in the U.S. undermines good public policy, with … Continue reading → The post Vanishing data undermines public policy globally first appeared on Free Government Information (FGI).| Free Government Information (FGI)
Well, this is disturbing and could have ripple effects through public health research that is sure to erode confidence in federal data. A new study in the medical journal The Lancet entitled “Data manipulation within the US Federal Government” reports that more than 100 United States government health datasets have been altered this spring without … Continue reading → The post Lancet investigation shows data manipulation in major U.S. health datasets first appeared on Free Government ...| Free Government Information (FGI)
For those looking to keep abreast on all of the changes and deletions to federal government information and data, now there’s dataindex.us. DataIndex is a new collaborative project dedicated to monitoring the federal data infrastructure including dataset availability, new releases, and both planned and unplanned changes to data collections. The platform is developing tools to … Continue reading → The post Newest data tracking effort: dataindex.us first appeared on Free Government Inform...| Free Government Information (FGI)
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) has launched the Federal Data Forum — an online community of hundreds of public data stakeholders (groups and individuals) interested in protecting the federal data infrastructure. PRB is a nonpartisan organization that advocates for the democratization of data. Members of the forum can share news, resources, and data advocacy strategies … Continue reading → The post New: The Federal Data Forum first appeared on Free Government Information (FGI).| Free Government Information (FGI)
Librarians and archivists are doing all that they can to collect and curate already-published web-based government information and data before it is taken offline. However, this administration’s anti-science policies and executive orders will have long-lasting negative impacts in the United States and around the world going forward and for many years to come as scientific … Continue reading → The post Trump administration shut down more than 100 climate studies first appeared on Free Go...| Free Government Information (FGI)
There is a long tradition in the govinfo librarian world of assuring access and longevity of published government information. From 1981 until 1998, Anne Heanue and the fine folks at the Washington Office of the American Library Association (ALA) published an amazing series called Less Access to Less Information by and about the U.S. Government, … Continue reading → The post Tracking govinfo project logging removed or modified federal publications and websites first appeared on Free Gover...| Free Government Information (FGI)
It seems that the scrubbing of public information and communication from Federal government websites has begun. But along with erasing information that the new administration does not like (mostly centered on climate change and the environment, science, health, DEI, civil rights, immigration, and the like), they have also signed a raft of executive orders overturning| Free Government Information (FGI)
[This post is adapted from our forthcoming book, Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.] Today we want to clarify something important about preserving government information. There is a difference between the government changing a policy and the government erasing information, but the line between those two has blurred in the digital age. When a| Free Government Information (FGI)