“The administration removed hundreds of federal web pages containing critical information about Americans. Fortunately, it still lives at Philly-based PolicyMap, whose director walks us through what just happened — and why it’s too soon to Last week, President Donald Trump came for our data. Executive orders to eliminate any DEI and climate change-related language from… Continue Reading
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Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data
“Managed by the Geospatial Management Office, HIFLD curates and provides access to geospatial data on U.S. critical infrastructure. Users can view data and download CSV, KML, and Shapefiles for visualization and application development.” HIFLD houses 400+ data layers. Many have robust summaries and metadata that document the source, update cadence, most recent update, and field… Continue Reading
Environmental & Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School
The Environmental & Energy Law Program (EELP) provides innovative, rigorous legal analysis to: Administrative Law Clean Air Clean Cars Clean Water Corporate Climate Risk Environmental Justice Methane Emissions Power Sector Trackers – Regulatory Tracker – Tracking the regulatory steps to advance clean energy deployment and environmental protection, and provides an up-to-date and concise summary of… Continue Reading
Announcing the Data.gov Archive
Harvard Law School Library: “Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in our… Continue Reading
Government Agrees to Temporarily Restrict DOGE From Treasury Records
Democracy Docket:”The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed to restrict the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to Department of the Treasury records after a coalition of federal unions and an advocacy group sued to block DOGE’s actions. According to the order — issued by a federal judge Thursday after the DOJ reached an agreement… Continue Reading
Update on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive
“Every four years, before and after the U.S. presidential election, a team of libraries and research organizations, including the Internet Archive, work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. These “End of Term” (EOT) Web Archive projects have been completed for term transitions in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and… Continue Reading
CRS confirms the president does not have authority to abolish or move USAID
Congressional Research Service Update – USAID Under the Trump Administration: “Because Congress established USAID as an independent establishment (defined in 5 U.S.C. 104) within the executive branch, the President does not have the authority to abolish it; congressional authorization would be required to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID. The Secretary of State established USAID as… Continue Reading
Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders
Court Watch: More than thirty lawsuits have been filed and we are trying our best to keep this page updated in real-time. The Docket links are updated in real-time. By 2/10/25, we will organize this page by topic area for ease of read. If you’re new to Court Watch, we’d encourage you to check out… Continue Reading
Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker
“The Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact are monitoring the Trump administration’s implementation of Project 2025, tracking the authoritarian blueprint’s executive action proposals across 20 federal agencies. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is the conservative movement’s blueprint for weakening our government and building an authoritarian presidency. To monitor the Trump administration’s regulatory and… Continue Reading
Harvard Announces the Data.gov Archive
Harvard Law School Innovation Lab: “Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in… Continue Reading
DOGE Emails Went Out to Federal Judges by Mistake
As if we have not been in a lessons not learned class since noon on January 20, 2025 today Newsweek reported: “One of the people who received an email from allies of Elon Musk was a federal judge overseeing a lawsuit aimed at blocking these messages. “I, like probably every other judge in the country,… Continue Reading
GAO Annual Report on Nation’s Fiscal Health
“As the federal government’s publicly held debt continues to grow, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today issued its annual report on the nation’s fiscal health. The report again warns Congress and the Administration about the federal government’s long-term fiscal path and calls for decisive action. As it has since 2017, GAO recommends a strategy… Continue Reading
