Overview

The Public Environmental Data Partners are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. We are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. 

To gather insights on what data to preserve, we reached out to our networks, which consist largely of environmental justice groups and networks, state and local government climate offices, and academic researchers. We compiled a large list of federal databases and tools, and prioritized them based on their relative impact, our confidence that we could archive them, and the relative effort it would take to obtain and archive them.

This tool showcases various federal climate-related tools and archived data that are being updated regularly:

• Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
• EPA's Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool
• EPA's Environmental Justice Analysis Multisite (EJAM) Tool
• FEMA’s Future Risk Index
• Archived federal agency datasets

This tool also highlights ways to nominate data to preserve, and for new partners to get involved from prioritizing data, scraping and archiving to amplifying access and lifting up insights from the data.