Article 5XFG3 The EPA plans to sunset its online archive

The EPA plans to sunset its online archive

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Justine Calma
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Come July, the EPA plans to retire the archive containing old news releases, policy changes, regulatory actions, and more. Those are important public resources, advocates say, but federal guidelines for maintaining public records still fall short when it comes to protecting digital assets.

Web services is the language of the government now, [but] we're not treating it with the same sort of respect that we are paper documents," says Gretchen Gehrke, one of the co-founders of a group that initially came together to prevent the Trump administration from destroying environmental data. The group, called Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), is still fighting for public access to resources like the EPA's online archive.

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