Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
A timeline of data preservations
January 24, 2025: Members of the Public Environmental Data Partners create an unofficial but functional copy of the Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening tool.
February 6, 2025: Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab Team releases a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov.
April 8, 2025: The Institute for Development Impact launches DECfinder, preserving over 100,000 documents from USAID’s Development Experience Clearinghouse. Source
March 13, 2025: An unofficial but functional copy of FEMA’s Future Risk Index Tool is shared on GitHub.
March 25, 2025: Webrecorder launches GovArchive.us and static mirrors of the 2025 versions of endangered federal websites including the USAID, CDC, EPA, and FEMA sites.
June 23, 2025: The Data Rescue Project (DRP) launches its Portal, a searchable hub of preserved government data from the DRP, the Public Environmental Data Partners, Safe Guarding Research & Culture, ICPSR, and others.
July 28, 2025: The nonprofit Climate Central takes over NOAA's Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database. Data collection will continue as before under Adam Smith, who led the project at NOAA.
September 18, 2025: The Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters updates its map of chemical disasters to include facilities in the EPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) database. The RMP data was obtained via a FOIA request by the Data Liberation Project.
September 23, 2025: Former NOAA staff members post a clone of the Fifth National Climate Assessment website. Source
October 13, 2025: The Save Our Signs Archive, a collection of crowd-sourced photos that documents original and altered National Park Signs, launches.
March 17, 2026: The Public Environmental Data Partners and Fulton Ring launch HIFLD Next, a replacement for the Department of Homeland Security’s HIFLD Open data portal.
May 28, 2026: The Data Rescue Project, and a coalition of other organizations, hosts an LGBTQ Data Rescue Hackathon, “rescuing” SOGI datasets that had not yet been preserved.
May 29, 2026: Lawfare launches an archive of deleted DOJ press releases related to the Jan. 6 US Capitol attack.
June 23, 2026: Former NOAA staff members launch Climate.us, an independent recreation of climate.gov.